gRPC Conf 2024

Service mesh has changed the way we deploy and maintain distributed systems, bringing us advanced traffic management, end-to-end security, and much more. However, these advances often came at a somewhat hidden cost – the sidecar proxies running alongside every workload, eating up CPU and increasing end-to-end latency.

gRPC proxyless service mesh has come around at a time when platform teams are seeking out ways to lower their cloud bill without sacrificing the gains made through service mesh. In this talk, you'll learn how to do just that, combining a gRPC data plane with your xDS-compatible control plane of choice.