Envoy has become a popular networking component as of late. Matt Klein wrote a blog a couple years back talking about Envoy’s dynamic configuration API and how it has been part of the reason the ad...
So you’ve decided to run your Kubernetes workloads in AWS. As we’ve seen before setting up AWS EKS requires a lot of patience and headache. You may be able to get it working. For others, you should...
API Gateways are going through a bit of an identity crisis these days. Are they centralized, shared resources that facilitate the exposure and governance of APIs to external entities? ...
In 2019, I’m joining solo.io as Field CTO to build and grow a company that creates developer tools and infrastructure to help organizations build their software for cloud platforms/public cloud kee...
This week before the Christmas break is my last week at Red Hat, the company I’ve been with for the last 6.5 years. Actually, I joined a small start up close to 7 years ago that was quickly acquire...
No doubt, if you’ve been paying attention to technology trends, you’ve seen the rise in interest of “serverless”. In some accounts, “serverless” is billed as the “next application architecture” sty...
I’ve recently started giving a talk about the evolution of integration and the adoption of service mesh, specifically Istio. I’ve been excited about Istio ever since I first heard about it back in ...
I’m fortunate to have a few sessions at Red Hat Summit next week (May 8-10) in San Francisco! I’ll be speaking/co-presenting with some fantastic presenters about microservices, service mesh, Istio,...
Burr Sutter (@burrsutter) and I (@christianposta) have finished writing a small book to help folks get up and running with Istio.io service mesh! Many many thanks to all of the reviewers who too...
I see lots of customers moving to microservices, (whether they should or not is a topic for a different post), and in doing so they are attempting to solve some difficult organizational scaling pro...
Microservices allow us to go faster and reduce our time to value. However, we cannot just naively move fast and break things. We need a way to reduce the risk of making changes and in doing so, mak...
We’ve been talking about Istio and service mesh recently (follow along @christianposta for the latest) but one aspect of Istio can be glossed over. One of the most important aspects of Istio.io is ...
When we build services architectures (Service Oriented Architecture, Microservices, the next incarnation, etc), we end up making a lot more calls over the network. The network is perilous. We try t...
Just getting back from KubeCon 2017 and I can tell you the excitement about Istio and service mesh in general is through the roof! There were lots of talks about Istio/service mesh (including a pan...
In the first part (part I) we introduced a strategy to bring microservices to our architecture without disrupting the current request flows and business value by looking at a concrete example. In t...
Let’s dive right in! In the previous post (part I) we set up the context for this blog. Basically, as we introduce a strategy to bring microservices to our architecture, we cannot and should not di...
Quick interlude to my last blog. As part of my last blog on low-risk monolith to microservice architecture, I made this statement about microservices and not doing them: “Microservices architec...
As part of a two-day microservices workshop I’m putting together, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to explain monolith-application decomposition and what a transition to microservices might look ...
I’ve talked quite a bit recently about the evolution of microservices patterns and how service proxies like Envoy from Lyft can help push the responsibility of resilience, service discovery, routin...
This blog is part of a series looking deeper at Envoy Proxy and Istio.io and how it enables a more elegant way to connect and manage microservices. Follow me @christianposta to stay up with these...