Perfect Scalability
Explore architectural constraints for extreme scalability, focusing on design approaches, real-world examples, and leveraging Lightbend tools to create systems that scale without limits.
Lightbend Lagom - Microservices Just Right
Explore Lightbend Lagom, an opinionated framework for building reactive microservices. Learn its developer-friendly approach, built-in production readiness, and how it simplifies the transition from development to deployment.
Reducing Microservice Complexity with Kafka and Reactive Streams
Explore how to simplify microservices using Kafka and Reactive Streams, focusing on latency reduction, back-pressure, high availability, and message payload evolution.
Container Networking Untangling Services Meshes and SDNs
Explore service meshes and SDNs in container networking, comparing Istio, Linkerd, Conduit, and OpenContrail for Kubernetes integration, scalability, routing, and security policy enforcement.
Using Rails to Communicate with the New York Stock Exchange
Learn to build scalable trading apps with Rails, managing complex APIs, TCP protocols, and RPC for high-frequency transactions with the New York Stock Exchange.
Developing & Debugging WebAssembly Filters for Envoy
Explore WebAssembly filter development for Envoy: writing, testing, debugging, and shipping. Gain insights into tooling and processes used by early adopters in service mesh environments.
Administering Multi Cluster Service Meshes Securely
Explore secure administration of multi-cluster service meshes, addressing credential sharing risks and scalability issues. Learn about a new client-server management approach inspired by Envoy for enhanced security.
Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly - Introduction to Adopting a Service Mesh in Your Organization
Learn practical guidance for adopting service mesh technology in your organization, exploring top use cases, understanding value/complexity tradeoffs, and gaining insights for successful implementation.
Service Mesh Extensibility Explained
Explore service mesh extensibility, focusing on enhancing sidecars, gateways, control planes, and integrating external systems. Learn to leverage Istio for advanced mesh capabilities.
Are You Sure About Your Mesh Performance?
Explore service mesh performance characterization, focusing on Envoy. Learn about methodologies, benchmark tools, common pitfalls, and optimizations for telco-grade performance with hardware offloads.
Multicluster Service Mesh
Explore multicluster service mesh complexities, solutions for managing hundreds of clusters, and the role of management planes in cloud-native architectures and microservices.
Tap Tap, Debugging an App with Your Service Mesh
Explore microservice debugging with Linkerd's traffic analysis, reducing MTTR and isolating issues without code changes or team coordination in distributed systems.
Observability with Consul Connect
Explore setting up and observing a service mesh platform using Consul Connect, focusing on effective monitoring through metrics, logs, and traces with Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and Grafana.
Multi-Cluster Service Mesh With Istio
Explore Istio's approach to multi-cluster service mesh, including service discovery, communication, and management across distributed clusters for high availability and scalability.
Scheduling 68k COVID Tests with Linkerd - The Pennsylvania State University
Discover how Penn State used Linkerd to secure, monitor, and troubleshoot a HIPAA-compliant COVID-19 testing scheduling system for 68,000 campus returnees, highlighting microservice performance optimization.
Virtual Machines as First Class Citizens in Service Mesh
Explore integrating virtual machines into service mesh, addressing challenges in automation, multi-cluster deployment, and canary deployments between pods and VMs. Includes practical demo.
Open Policy Agent Intro
Introduction to Open Policy Agent: A versatile policy engine for Kubernetes, microservices, CI/CD, and cloud. Learn about its features, use cases, and the OPA Gatekeeper project.
Compliance the Easy Way - Zero-conf mTLS for Dev and Smooth Day-2 for Ops
Explore zero-conf mTLS implementation with Linkerd for secure, observable, and reliable application infrastructure in financial contexts, including insights on integration and long-term operations.
How to Build a Python Microservice Without Losing a Job
Sarcastic guide to Python microservices migration, covering technical challenges, social aspects, and real-world pitfalls while maintaining job security in software architecture transitions.
Go for DevOps, Go for Microservices, and What Go Is
Explore Go's role in DevOps and microservices, its strengths and limitations, and the reasons behind its success in these domains.
Fault Tree Analysis Applied to Apache Kafka
Explore fault tree analysis techniques to enhance Apache Kafka cluster resilience, drawing insights from Lyft's experience in bulletproofing their deployments.