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Cloud Native Computing Meetup Berlin is happy to host INNOQ's Hanna Prinz who will talk about meaningful use cases for Service Meshes as well as the drawbacks and implementations such as Istio and Linkerd and Kinvolk's Thilo Fromm & Suraj Deshmukh who will explain about service mesh benchmarking framework.

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SCHEDULE:

[18:00 - 18:50] Hanna Prinz, “Service Mesh - fixing Microservice Architecture for good”

[19:00 - 19:45] Thilo Fromm & Suraj Deshmukh, “Service Mesh Benchmarking Framework”

Both talks will be followed by 5 minute Q&A and a 5-minute break.

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TALK DETAILS:

“Service Mesh - fixing Microservice Architecture for good”, Hanna Prinz

Abstract: Let’s be honest, sometimes we wish we could go back to the good old monolith. A single application that can be easily operated, secured, and monitored and that does not have to deal with all the challenges a network introduces. But instead, many companies have decided to go with Microservices, for many good reasons such as faster delivery and more independence for developer teams.

Yet, the cross-cutting concerns developers implement around the business logic seem to have gotten a bit out of hand. Think about monitoring, circuit breaking, canary releasing, TLS termination. This is exactly what a Service Mesh promises to change. It lifts monitoring, resilience, routing, and security into the infrastructure. Sounds too good to be true? Indeed, a Service Mesh does not come without a price: cognitive complexity, increased resource consumption, and latency.
We need to talk: about meaningful use cases for Service Meshes as well as the drawbacks and implementations such as Istio and Linkerd.

“Service Mesh Benchmarking Framework”, Thilo Fromm & Suraj Deshmukh

Abstract: This talk will show how we created a framework to benchmark service meshes, how to create large use and throw clusters, pipelining of metrics in persistent storage, how to choose the right metrics to get a holistic view of the performance of the mesh, (ab)use of the Grafana charts to get around the limitations of time series database, tweaks to the wrk2 tool to get the job done, etc.

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SPEAKER BIOS:

Hanna Prinz, Software Engineer & Consultant at INNOQ - Hanna is a Consultant at INNOQ, focusing on Service Mesh and Infrastructure. Before that, she worked as a developer for backend, web, and apps and as a lecturer for programming. Ever since she experienced the challenges of Ops, she has been most interested in the field of automation and DevOps like Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Service Meshes.

Thilo Fromm, Director of OS and Security at Kinvolk, Thilo started his professional life with hardware and OS engineering for embedded systems, then moved to Linux kernel and plumbing level work in embedded, virtualization, networking, and storage. He ventured into data centers spanning systems, working with Amazon AWS’ EC2 team in Dresden for more than 3 years. Thilo entered the world of cloud-native systems in 2019 when he joined Kinvolk as an engineering director. Thilo’s main concern is on managing Kinvolk’s OS & Security engineering team to drive Flatcar Container Linux development while retaining a strong focus on technical tasks from the OS level up across many layers of abstraction.

Suraj Deshmukh, Senior Software Engineer at Kinvolk, Suraj is software engineer with varied interests of systems, networking, and security. He is the organizer of Kubernetes Bangalore Meetups which happens monthly. He is passionate about open source software and believes in sharing is caring.

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