On our bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, a third of each node’s inbound traffic was a hop that never needed to leave the node. Here is how we made the ingress prefer a pod on its own node, without giving up load balancing.
Introduction: The Observability Context at Equativ At Equativ, operating in a world of high traffic and low latency is our daily reality, and observability is not just a best practice; it’s a critical business necessity. Our engineering teams have been a driving force, establishing a robust observability stack that encompasses logs, metrics, traces and profiles. We have instrumented most of our applications to ensure we know exactly what is happening under the hood....