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Enable your Microservices with Advanced Resiliency and Fault Tolerance Leveraging Istio

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Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] · 2017 · People & Blogs

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Enable your Microservices with Advanced Resiliency and Fault Tolerance Leveraging Istio [I] - Animesh Singh & Tommy Li, IBM

Building and packaging microservices is one part of the story. Given a highly salable and distributed microservices deployment is going to face failures at different layers, how do we make these microservices resilient and fault tolerant? How do we enforce policy decisions such as fine-grained access control and rate limits? How do we enabled timeouts/retries, health checks etc? Even though some language specific frameworks address these issues, the implementation is often framework or language specific. 

If the underlying framework or language changes, the resiliency features need to be reimplemented or ported over. And in some cases, applications also have the responsibility of implementing the code and configuration required for resiliency and fault tolerance. A Service-mesh architecture attempts to solve these issues by extracting the common resiliency features needed by a microservice framework away from the applications and frameworks and into the platform itself. Istio provides an easy way to create this service mesh.

In this talk we will discuss how to build, deploy, connect your Java microservices leveraging Istio service mesh. We then show how to configure and use circuit breakers, timeouts/retries, rate limits and other advanced resiliency features from Istio without changing the application code.

About Tommy Li
Tommy Li is a software developer for IBM focusing on Cloud, Container, and Infrastructure technology. He has worked on various Developer Journeys on Kubernetes, Microservice, and Hybrid Cloud to provide use cases on cloud-computing solutions. He is also passionate about Machine Learning and big Data.

About Animesh Singh
Animesh Singh is an STSM and Lead for IBM Cloud, Containers and InfrastructureDeveloper Technology. He is also a member of IBM Academy of Technology, and has been an active open source IBM champion. Over the course of last few years, he has been leading major initiatives for IBM Cloud and Bluemix and currently works with developers to design and develop cloud-computing solutions around Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless, OpenWhisk, OpenStack and Cloud Foundry. He has also been leading cutting edge technical Cloud products and projects for IBM Customers (US and around the globe) in Telco, Banking, Aviation and Healthcare Industries. Animesh has numerous patents to his credit and runs Bay Area meetups and user group son Cloud Foundry and Serverless technologies, and is an active speaker in conferences around the globe.
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