Actually, all the props for that go to Katran's author himeself. When we hired Nikita V. Shirokov (tehnerd), the first thing he did was replacing IPVS with XDP/eBPF-based Katran, which improved our Edge servers throughput by 10x, from ~2MPps to ~20Mpps.

He also contributed a lot to Envoy migration migrating our desktop client to it and adding perf-related thing like TLS session tickets' lifetime to SDS.