Service Mesh Journey at DoorDash - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Embark on a 38-minute conference talk exploring DoorDash's service mesh implementation journey. Delve into the challenges of widespread adoption for existing services, including complexity and integration issues. Learn how a significant site-wide outage in 2021 sparked the development of a critical system now managing 5 million RPS and 10K pods. Discover best practices for successful adoption with minimal engineering effort, and understand how DoorDash aligned their architectural evolution with organizational priorities to address real-world problems in scalability, reliability, efficiency, and velocity. Gain valuable insights from the challenges encountered, mistakes made, and lessons learned throughout this transformative process.