Understanding Istio Telemetry v2

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, and just like other posts in the past, this one is meant as…

Read More »

Diving Into Istio 1.6 Certificate Rotation

Istio is a powerful service mesh built on Envoy Proxy that solves the problem of connecting services deployed in cloud…

Read More »

Do I Need an API Gateway if I Use a Service Mesh?

This post may not be able to break through the noise around API Gateways and Service Mesh. However, it’s 2020…

Read More »

Istio as an Example of When Not to Do Microservices

I’ve been pretty invested in helping organizations with their cloud-native journeys for the last five years. Modernizing and improving a…

Read More »

Moving the Service-mesh Community Forward

Service mesh is an important set of capabilities that solve some difficult service-to-service communication challenges when operating a services-style architecture.…

Read More »

Guidance for Building a Control Plane for Envoy Part 3 – Domain Specific Configuration API

This is part 3 of a series that explores building a control plane for Envoy Proxy. In this blog series,…

Read More »

Guidance for Building a Control Plane for Envoy Part 2 – Identify Components

This is part 2 of a series that explores building a control plane for Envoy Proxy. In this blog series,…

Read More »

Guidance for Building a Control Plane for Envoy – Deployment Tradeoffs

Deploying control plane components Once you’ve built and designed your control plane, you’ll want to decide exactly how its components…

Read More »

Guidance for Building a Control Plane for Envoy – Build for Pluggability

Envoy is a very powerful piece of software and every day new use cases and new contributions are being proposed…

Read More »