How we migrated Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy

In this blogpost we’ll talk about the old Nginx-based traffic infrastructure, its pain points, and the benefits we gained by migrating to Envoy. We’ll compare Nginx to Envoy across many software engineering and operational dimensions. We’ll also briefly touch on the migration process, its current state, and some of the problems encountered on the way. When we moved most of Dropbox traffic to Envoy

[laiso]

内製のGoのプロキシをフロントに置くことを検討したけどEnvoyのが良かったという部分がおもしろかった

[efcl]

Nginx to Envoy

[akymrk]

“Envoy does not have any blocking IO operations in the event loop”

[tmatsuu]

わいわい

[mapk0y]

https://twitter.com/songmu/status/1289230625933680641

[programmablekinoko]

へえ

[ikeike443]

まだまだnginxとenvoyは併用する必要があると思うけど、こうやってだんだんリプレースされていきそう。

[sonots]

予言: 次の isucon は Envoy スタートかな