Case Study: Entain Australia achieves 10x throughput and lower costs with Linkerd from Buoyant

Realizing 10x Throughput While Driving Down Costs, with Linkerd

Entain Australia, a leading sports betting and gaming company, needed to process live pricing and results data with extremely low latency across a large Kubernetes-based microservices platform. But gRPC load balancing issues in Kubernetes caused uneven traffic, hot spots, and costly cross-AZ traffic, creating performance, reliability, and cost challenges. Buoyant’s Linkerd service mesh was chosen to help solve these problems.

With Buoyant’s Linkerd, Entain Australia gained gRPC-aware load balancing, smarter routing, and better traffic distribution across pods and availability zones without reworking its applications. The results were dramatic: request capacity increased by more than 10x, max server load dropped by over 50%, horizontal scaling improved, and cross-AZ bandwidth costs fell by thousands of dollars per day.

Entain Australia

Steve Gray

Head of Trading Solutions