Databricks Builds a Sidecarless Service Mesh on Envoy for Billions of Requests

Rohit Agrawal, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks, shares how the traffic platform team scaled Envoy from 1,000 to billions of QPS, why they chose sidecarless proxying over Istio, and how dynamic modules are set to double throughput by eliminating sidecars entirely. If your team is wrestling with service mesh decisions at scale, this conversation is packed with hard-won lessons.