How Zalando Built an In-Process Client-Side Load Balancer for One Million Requests per Second

The engineering team at Zalando recently described the design and implementation of an in-process, client-side load balancer for a high-throughput API handling around 1 million requests per second. The result was more predictable latency, a drop in infrastructure costs, and better visibility into where failures actually originate.

By Renato Losio