What a service mesh is and what it can do for your microservices.

Matt is Head of Platform at Ziglu, a UK-based FinTech startup building a revolutionary banking platform using cutting-edge cloud-native technology. Matt and his teams are responsible for the infrastructure and developer tooling underlying all of Ziglu’s services. Matt has been doing Dev, sometimes with added Ops, for over a decade. His idea of "full-stack" is Linux, Kubernetes, and now Istio too. He's given many talks and workshops on Kubernetes and Istio, including at all three KubeCon editions, and is co-organiser of the Istio London meetup. He tweets @mt165 and blogs at https://mt165.co.uk

We'll explore what a service mesh is and what it can do for your microservices. Are the claims of observability, resiliency, and WAF features real? Are they useful during development, production, or both? Using pictures and demos, we'll find out!

This session will also briefly cover how a service mesh works, giving us a mental model with which to explore and evaluate after the talk. Matt will show a simple installation and demo, giving us all the knowledge to go home and try for yourself.