World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Rate-limiting using eBPF and Istio: How to protect your SaaS customers from themselves

Jan Mensch

How do you stop one noisy customer from crashing your entire shared infrastructure? Learn to combine eBPF and Istio for dual-layered rate limiting that ruthlessly drops runaway connections.

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