Failing Forward to 1 Million Requests per Second

Explore Spotify's journey of implementing Envoy through a series of failures and lessons learned in this 27-minute conference talk. Discover how the company's culture of celebrating failures was put to the test during their migration process. Gain insights into war stories, test setups, and results as speakers Axel Liljencrantz and Mikael Sundberg share their experiences with Envoy's circuit breaker, scaling challenges, and thread pool management. Learn valuable suggestions for handling similar situations and understand the importance of filters in achieving high-performance results. Dive into the process of scaling to 1 million requests per second and the obstacles encountered along the way.

Introduction
Background
Envoy
Test setup
Results
Lets go
Envoys circuit breaker
Graph
Scaling
Abyss
The Abyss
Thread Pools
Envoy Reuse Port
Test Results
End of Journey
Suggestions
Questions
Filters