Engineering @ Scale — 2026-07-25#

Signal of the Day#

Zalando’s decision to move load balancing directly into the client process at 1 million requests per second demonstrates the enduring value of pushing routing intelligence to the edges to eliminate middlebox latency and cost. Similarly, in the operations space, the industry is recognizing that AI-driven root cause analysis is constrained by upstream telemetry correlation, not by the reasoning capabilities of the models themselves.