Side Effects - Lessons Learnt While Building Traffic Platforms Serving 1.5 Million+ TPS Using Kubernetes

Learn from Intuit's engineering team about building and scaling traffic platforms in this 42-minute conference talk from KubeCon. Discover the evolution and design iterations of platforms handling over 1.5 million transactions per second across approximately 2,000 production services and 350 Kubernetes clusters. Explore key architectural decisions and solutions for implementing cost-effective, low-latency API Gateway and Service Mesh platforms that support 10,000+ engineers. Gain insights into externalizing authorization using OPA-based sidecars, managing distributed traffic configurations through self-service models, and implementing efficient rate-limiting solutions. Master the challenges and solutions of building multi-tenant traffic platforms at scale while maintaining high performance and reliability.