Envoy
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A high-performance edge and service proxy used for traffic management in microservices.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by framework updates, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 32%.
Evidence (2)
- 7InfoQ·7/20/2026product_launchDoorDash Builds 1.5M RPS Proxy Cache with Envoy and Valkey
DoorDash developed Entity Cache, a transparent proxy caching platform designed to cut redundant service-to-service traffic in its microservices environment. Built on Envoy and Valkey, it operates inside the company’s service mesh and is reported to handle more than 1.5 million requests per second with very high availability.
- 6InfoQ·7/2/2026framework_updateNetflix Details Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding
Netflix speakers described how the company uses prioritized load shedding to keep user-initiated requests responsive during extreme traffic spikes. The approach is implemented in an Envoy sidecar proxy and is paired with automated chaos load testing, config generation, and retry storm mitigation to improve reliability.