---
title: "Lessons learned from running a large gRPC mesh at Datadog"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/lessons-learned-from-running-a-large-grpc-mesh-at-datadog-8w5prer5l
source_url: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/grpc-at-datadog/
type: article
source: "Datadog"
published: 2024-04-22T14:07:08.612Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:13:33.132Z
tags: ["kubernetes", "dns", "grpc"]
reading_time: 11
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Lessons learned from running a large gRPC mesh at Datadog

**[Datadog](https://daily.dev/sources/datadog)** · 11 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Lessons learned from running a large gRPC mesh at Datadog, including challenges of implementing a networking solution for a complex application, how gRPC facilitates communication within Kubernetes clusters, and best practices for running gRPC services in a high-scale Kubernetes environment.

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Tags: [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#dns](https://daily.dev/tags/dns), [#grpc](https://daily.dev/tags/grpc)

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