When explosive growth hits your business and load balancers

Since its creation in 2017, the AI machine translation company DeepL has grown explosively, and so have the challenges of managing external traffic: tens of thousands of requests per second, abuse of the free tier service, on-premises scaling issues, and complicated load balancing configuration.

What you'll learn:

• How HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller powered DeepL’s Kubernetes traffic management
• Strategies for managing growing traffic and organizational complexity
• How to enable developers and enforce best practices, while abstracting the infrastructure
• Solutions to technical and organizational bottlenecks

In this session, you’ll see how DeepL’s use of HAProxy evolved: from legacy load balancer to the one-and-only Kubernetes Ingress Controller that helps the infrastructure team address the challenges of rapid growth. And also explosions.