Hey everyone,

We hope y'all had a wonderfully relaxing summer break. We are delighted to welcome Christian Posta, Global Field CTO at Solo.io, to headline the September Meetup.

Abstract :

As we build cloud-native applications, we inevitably will need to solve challenges of service-to-service communication. Service mesh helps solve these problems by giving application developers a baseline set of functionalities like service discovery, client-side load balancing, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, etc that work regardless of framework or language. Additionally, service mesh gives operators a set of L7 controls over traffic routing, policy enforcement, and strong identity and security.

A major challenge of building and operating cloud-native applications is the new problems it introduces. For example, understanding a system's behavior becomes more difficult, non-deterministic system behaviors get introduced, and debugging issues becomes a tangled mystery. Service mesh lays the foundation and API to L7 networking that allows you to build tools to solve these problems.

Come to this demo-heavy talk to see how service mesh and open-source projects Squash, Gloo Shot, and Loop allow you to trigger, replay, and investigate failure modes of your microservices in a language agnostic and efficient manner without requiring any changes to your code.

More about Christian :

Christian Posta (@christianposta) is Global Field CTO at Solo.io, former Chief Architect at Red Hat, and well known in the community for being an author (Istio in Action, Manning, Istio Service Mesh, O'Reilly 2018, Microservices for Java Developers, O’Reilly 2016), frequent blogger, speaker, open-source enthusiast and committer on various open-source projects including Istio, Kubernetes, and many others. Christian has spent time at both enterprises as well as web-scale companies and now helps companies create and deploy large-scale, cloud-native resilient, distributed architectures. He enjoys mentoring, training and leading teams to be successful with distributed systems concepts, microservices, devops, and cloud-native application design.

Looking forward to seeing you all on September 25th!

Tom and Aidan

Ps. Shameless plug time. We've added an additional 100 tickets to ShipItCon (September 6th). This is a community-driven, non-profit event in which world-class speakers will be sharing their insights into the current and future state of Software Delivery. Tickets are 75 euro and available here : https://shipitcon.com/tickets

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