DeveloperWeek Austin 2019

Microservices architecture (MSA) has been widely adopted in recent years due to its significant benefits. However, it is equally important to build services that can isolate failures, self-healing, secure service-service communication along with improved tracing and monitoring capabilities. Imagine the effort required to enable these features for dozens of microservice (small application) and hundreds of microservice (enterprise-grade application), it is a humongous effort.

In this talk, Service mesh concept is covered that details how to abstract routing, security and observability implementation from individual services and make it part of a dedicated infrastructure layer. Further, the session explores an open source, cloud agnostic, batteries-included service mesh implementation named Istio. With Istio, we demonstrate how microservice can leverage built-in routing capabilities (circuit-breaker, retry, fault injection, blue-green and canary deployment), securing service communication via access controls and in-depth telemetry support for metrics, monitoring and traces with real application use cases. At last, quick recap of service mesh implementations, its maturity and industry adoption will be shared.