Show notes
You're running gRPC services in Kubernetes, load balancing looks fine on the dashboard — but some pods are burning at 80% CPU while others sit idle, and adding more replicas only partially helps.
Rohit Agrawal, a Staff Software Engineer on the traffic platform team at Databricks, explains why this happens and how his team replaced Kubernetes's default networking with a proxy-less, client-side load-balancing system built on the xDS protocol.
In this episode:
• Why KubeProxy's Layer 4 routing breaks down under high-throughput gRPC: it picks a backend once per TCP connection, not per…
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