This session delves into Zomato's journey of adopting Kuma Service Mesh to manage over 500 microservices with 10,000 dataplanes. The session begins by addressing common challenges in service communication, such as observability gaps, insecure traffic, and inconsistent configurations across environments, and explore how Kuma Service Mesh resolves these issues.

The presentation highlights how Kuma standardises configurations, minimises debugging efforts, and improves application performance, thereby reducing developer overhead. A key focus is on leveraging Kuma to enhance developer workflows through local-preview environments, allowing dynamic traffic routing to local services based on headers. This facilitates rapid iteration and debugging.

Additionally, we will discuss our roadmap for utilising Kuma's zone-aware routing to reduce cross-zone data transfer, lowering costs and enhancing efficiency.