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Slant: Shaping Traffic for Resource-Efficient Microservices
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Microservice architectures rely on load balancers to distribute requests across service replicas, yet existing designs largely optimize for balanced routing without considering how routing shapes autoscaling signals and resource efficiency. We present Slant, a resource-aware load balancing framework that intentionally creates safe traffic imbalance to improve resource utilization. Slant profiles service-specific critical points, computes conservative multi-dimensional capacity, derives imbalance-aware routing weights that maintain hot and cold pods, and falls back to safer behavior under anomalies. By exposing clearer utilization signals, Slant works with existing vertical pod autoscalers (VPAs) without modification. Experiments on three microservice benchmarks show that Slant reduces allocated CPU cores by up to 26\% while lowering P99 latency by up to 18\% compared to Round-Robin. Under dynamic workloads, Slant triggers VPA scale-up 45\% faster and completes scale-in 40\% faster. Under anomalies, it recovers 40\% faster from pod failures and limits latency amplification to 1.8$\times$ versus 2.6$\times$ during downstream slowdowns.
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Slant: Shaping Traffic for Resource-Efficient Microservices
Microservice architectures rely on load balancers to distribute requests across service replicas, yet existing designs largely optimize for balanced routing without considering how routing shapes autoscaling signals and resource efficiency. We present Slant, a resource-aware load balancing framework that intentionally creates safe traffic imbalance to improve resource utilization. Slant profiles service-specific critical points, computes conservative multi-dimensional capacity, derives imbalance-aware routing weights that maintain hot and cold pods, and falls back to safer behavior under anomalies. By exposing clearer utilization signals, Slant works with existing vertical pod autoscalers (VPAs) without modification. Experiments on three microservice benchmarks show that Slant reduces allocated CPU cores by up to 26\% while lowering P99 latency by up to 18\% compared to Round-Robin. Under dynamic workloads, Slant triggers VPA scale-up 45\% faster and completes scale-in 40\% faster. Under anomalies, it recovers 40\% faster from pod failures and limits latency amplification to 1.8$\times$ versus 2.6$\times$ during downstream slowdowns.
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