Case Study: eBay Classifieds Group achieves load balancing at scale with Traefik Labs

eBay Classifieds Group chooses Traefik to achieve load balancing

eBay Classifieds Group, a global collection of local marketplaces, needed a scalable routing and load‑balancing solution to support a containerized microservices platform that serves millions of users and 15 million listings. Their existing stack (Fabio, hardware load balancers and Nomad) could not meet the flexibility or scale required for advanced routing and API gateway capabilities, so they evaluated alternatives and selected Traefik Labs’ Traefik as the vendor/product to provide an all‑in‑one load balancer and API gateway.

Traefik Labs deployed Traefik across eBay Classifieds Group’s platforms, integrating with Docker, Nomad and Consul to automatically configure hundreds of services and route internal and external traffic. Since adoption, Traefik Labs’ solution has enabled zero downtime while handling peaks of 22,000 requests per second, improved developer velocity by saving hours on configuration tasks, and delivered 24x7 availability without vendor lock‑in thanks to Traefik’s open‑source model.

eBay Classifieds Group

Wim Fournier

Site Reliability Engineer