Real-time Kubernetes: How Entain Australia 10x'd throughput with Linkerd - Steve Gray
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2021-10-29

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Real-time Kubernetes: How Entain Australia 10x'd throughput with Linkerd - Steve Gray, Entain Australia

Entain Australia operates a large scale Kubernetes deployment consisting of 300 microservices, 3000 pods, and multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple regions. Due to the nature of Entain's business, this system must be as close to real-time as possible. In this talk, the Entain team describes how they moved from connection-level load balancing to request-level load balancing and increased overall application throughput by an order of magnitude by installing Linkerd. They discuss the impact of Linkerd's load balancing on gRPC calls, the decision-making process for choosing a service mesh, and lessons learned rolling out a service mesh to production.