Mittens is an open-source tool that can be used as a warm-up routine for HTTP applications over both REST and gRPC — At Hotels.com™, part of Expedia Group™, we deploy our services on Kubernetes. Many of those services are deployed to production multiple times per week while Kubernetes restarts pods and applications on a regular basis. When an application starts as part of a deploy, redeploy, or restart, the very first requests…