Case Study: Entain achieves 10x throughput and lower costs with CNCF Linkerd

How a Global Sports Betting and Gaming Company Realized 10x Throughput While Driving Down Costs – Powered by Linkerd

Entain, a global sports betting and gaming company, faced significant performance challenges with its Kubernetes-hosted platform in Australia. Their system, handling thousands of bets per second, was plagued by inefficient gRPC load balancing and latency issues, which created financial risk and disrupted their operations. To address this, they turned to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s project, Linkerd, for a solution.

By implementing the Linkerd service mesh, Entain's team resolved their core technical problems. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's technology provided intelligent routing and proper load balancing, which resulted in a 10x increase in request throughput, a more than 50% reduction in server load, and a significant decrease in cloud computing costs, all while dramatically improving platform stability and team morale.

Entain

Steve Gray

Head of Trading Solutions