Lightning Talk: Increasing Platform Reliability and Performance in One Week with a Service Mesh - Eli Goldberg, Salt Security Platform engineer Eli Goldberg will share how his team used Linkerd to load balance gRPC connections while realizing instant security, efficiency, and performance gains in just one week. When the company's customer base started to grow quickly, the platform needed to scale fast. That led to a few challenges, including backward compatibility issues. To address that, the team moved to gRPC, but load balancing of gRPC requests isn't supported by Kubernetes. After some research, they decided to adopt a service mesh and gave Linkerd a try. To their surprise, not only did it solve the load balancing issue, it also led to a host of other unexpected benefits. Eli will outline their journey, including lessons learned and the challenges ahead.

Lightning Talk: Increasing Platform Reliability and Performance in One Week with a Service Mesh - Eli Goldberg, Salt Security Platform engineer Eli Goldberg will share how his team used Linkerd to load balance gRPC connections while realizing instant security, efficiency, and performance gains in just one week. When the company's customer base started to grow quickly, the platform needed to scale fast. That led to a few challenges, including backward compatibility issues. To address that, the team moved to gRPC, but load balancing of gRPC requests isn't supported by Kubernetes. After some research, they decided to adopt a service mesh and gave Linkerd a try. To their surprise, not only did it solve the load balancing issue, it also led to a host of other unexpected benefits. Eli will outline their journey, including lessons learned and the challenges ahead.