Ambient Mesh & Sidecar-less Istio

The service mesh was supposed to simplify microservice communication. Then it gave every pod a second process to babysit. Ambient…

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Kubernetes-Native Java: Beyond Traditional Deployment Models

The arrival of Kubernetes (K8s) as the de facto operating system for the cloud has forced a fundamental shift in…

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Service Mesh vs API Gateway: Navigating Modern Microservices Communication

When you break down a monolithic application into microservices, you solve one problem but create another. Your application is now…

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Service Mesh in Java: Istio and Linkerd Integration for Secure Microservices

As microservice architectures grow, managing service-to-service communication becomes complex. Concerns like traffic management, security (mTLS), observability, and retries cannot always…

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Introducing the Service Mesh Approach

Microservices architectures, while offering many advantages, can introduce complexity in managing communication and security between services. The service mesh approach…

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Decoding Service Mesh: Best Practices for Effective Microservices Management and Orchestration

In the dynamic landscape of modern software architecture, microservices have emerged as a transformative approach, allowing for the development of…

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Service Mesh and Cloud-Native Microservices with Apache Kafka, Kubernetes and Envoy, Istio, Linkerd

Microservice architectures are not free lunch! Microservices need to be decoupled, flexible, operationally transparent, data aware and elastic. Most material…

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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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