Harnessing the Power of Service Mesh

6:30pm - 7:00pm: Food & networking
7:00pm - 7:10pm: Announcements
7:15pm - 8:15pm: Harnessing the Power of Service Mesh

Speaker: Christian Posta
https://blog.christianposta.com/about/
Author of Istio in Action (Manning) and Microservices for Java Devlopers (O'Reilly)

Abstract:

As we build cloud-native applications, we inevitably will need to solve the challenges of service-to-service communication. Service mesh helps solve these problems by giving application developers a baseline set of functionalities like service discovery, client-side load balancing, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, etc that work regardless of framework or language. Additionally, service mesh gives operators a set of L7 controls over traffic routing, policy enforcement, and strong identity and security.

A major challenge of building and operating cloud-native applications is the new problems it introduces. For example, understanding a system's behavior becomes more difficult, non-deterministic system behaviors get introduced, and debugging issues becomes a tangled mystery. Service mesh lays the foundation and API to L7 networking that allows you to build tools to solve these problems.

Come to this demo-heavy talk to see how service mesh and open-source projects Squash, Gloo Shot, and Loop allow you to trigger, replay, and investigate failure modes of your microservices in a language agnostic and efficient manner without requiring any changes to your code.

Thanks to Walmart Labs for hosting the meetup.