How we migrated Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy

Dropbox moved its edge traffic proxy from Nginx to Envoy for better observability and extensibility.

A different take on the proxy layer: Zalando moved 1M+ requests/sec off its shared ingress into a client-side load balancer.

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Scale
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Techniques
proxy migration load balancing
Stack
Envoy Nginx

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