Integrating Stateful Load Balancing At Scale In Envoy - Suyog Soti & Gaurav Nanda, Databricks

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This talk details Databricks' implementation of stateful load balancing using Envoy with the Dicer autosharder, achieving 90-95% cache hit rates while maintaining 99.95% availability. It covers the evolution from ExtProc+sidecar architecture to Envoy dynamic modules, including upstream contributions to the Envoy ExtProc filter and Rust SDK. The content is designed for platform engineers and infrastructure developers working with large-scale distributed systems.