Name: How We Moved Spotify To a Proxyless gRPC Service Mesh - Erik Lindblad & Erica Manno, Spotify
Start: 2025-04-03T14:15:00+0100
End: 2025-04-03T14:45:00+0100

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1-4 April 2025
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Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

This talk tells the story of how Spotify transitioned its service network from a decade old DNS based service discovery to a modern service mesh built on the xDS API’s from the Envoy project. The talk covers the research and design considerations for this new system, and how it draws full advantage of native support in gRPC for both xDS and proxyless load balancing to support Spotify’s scale (2 million kubernetes pods) without the performance impact of traditional service mesh setups. The audience will learn how this setup was used to build three important mesh capabilities at Spotify: dynamic traffic splitting, a service call graph and zone aware routing.

This is a case study, so the talk will also cover operational considerations like safe rollouts using fast fallback mechanisms, and how to use gRPC’s custom load balancer support to do a centrally managed rollout that’s transparent to teams using your platform.

Speakers

Erik Lindblad

Staff Engineer, Spotify

Erik works as a Staff Engineer in Spotify's Infrastructure department since 2018, and at Spotify since 2013. He has led work on several major infrastructure projects, like global load balancing, service mesh and cloud cost performance.

Erica Manno

Senior Software Engineer, Spotify

I am Senior Software Engineer at Spotify based out of Italy, working in Core Infrastructure. I am passionate about distributed systems, reliability at scale and solving infrastructure-related challenges. Prior to Spotify, I worked at Verisign as a tech lead building the registry for... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Erik Lindblad

Erica Manno

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