🤔TL;DR
Stripe ran Envoy for almost ten years, then replaced it with their own Go proxy, mesh-proxy. The payoff:
~50% less CPU under high load, ~50% lower latency
~3,000 days of inter-service latency sa…
🔌 Stripe's Proxy Was Opening Hundreds Of Thousands Of Connections
A Go proxy, one connection per host, and 3,000 days of latency saved every day
