Traffic Shadowing With Istio: Reducing the Risk of Code Release

We’ve been talking about Istio and service mesh recently (follow along @christianposta for the latest) but one aspect of Istio…

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Comparing Envoy and Istio Circuit Breaking With Netflix OSS Hystrix

When we build services architectures (Service Oriented Architecture, Microservices, the next incarnation, etc), we end up making a lot more…

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Low-risk Monolith to Microservice Evolution Part III

In the first part (part I) we introduced a strategy to bring microservices to our architecture without disrupting the current…

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Low-risk Monolith to Microservice Evolution Part II

Let’s dive right in! In the previous post (part I) we set up the context for this blog. Basically, as…

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About When Not to Do Microservices

Quick interlude to my last blog. As part of my last blog on low-risk monolith to microservice architecture, I made…

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Low-risk Monolith to Microservice Evolution Part I

As part of a two-day microservices workshop I’m putting together, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to explain monolith-application…

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Application Network Functions With ESBs, API Management, and Now.. Service Mesh?

I’ve talked quite a bit recently about the evolution of microservices patterns and how service proxies like Envoy from Lyft…

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Microservices Patterns With Envoy Proxy, Part III: Distributed Tracing

This blog is part of a series looking deeper at Envoy Proxy and Istio.io and how it enables a more…

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Microservices Patterns With Envoy Proxy, Part II: Timeouts and Retries

This blog is part of a series looking deeper at Envoy Proxy and Istio.io and how it enables a more…

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