Save Big on Coursera Plus. 7,000+ courses at $160 off. Limited Time Only! Grab it Explore the implementation of subsetting in gRPC at Datadog in this 31-minute conference talk. Learn about the challenges faced with managing a fully connected mesh in a distributed system with hundreds of thousands of processes. Discover the benefits of subsetting and the various implementation attempts made by Datadog. Gain insights into eliminating imbalance generated by subsetting and leveraging smart load balancing algorithms to manage overhead and improve reliability. Understand the process of extending gRPC in-house to accommodate subsetting and the efforts to upstream these changes through the gRPC RFC process.