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restQL V3 Released
The latest version of restQL, a microservices query language, has been released, providing notable new features including content aggregation, support for additional HTTP methods, self-healing functionality, and a version for node.js apps. Comprehensive performance improvements have made the latest version up to twice as fast as its predecessor.
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Introduction to Service Mesh Interface (SMI): Brendan Burns at QCon New York
Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification provides an abstraction layer on top of different service mesh implementations so it'll be easier to swap the implementations w/o changing the processes. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and currently Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, spoke recently at the QCon New York 2019 Conference, about the new specification and its future roadmap.
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Oliver Gould on Linkerd Service Mesh and Traffic Management
Oliver Gould, Linkerd product lead and CTO of Buyont, spoke at the QCon New York 2019 Conference last week about Linkerd service mesh, with a focus on traffic management capabilities.
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Service Mesh Interface (SMI): Q&A with Microsoft's Lachlan Evenson
InfoQ caught up with Lachlan Evenson, principal program manager at Microsoft, regarding the recent announcement at KubeCon of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI). Topics also discussed included the ecosystem of service meshes on Kubernetes.
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Solo.io Announces Service Mesh Hub and Chaos Engineering Tool
Solo.io, a cloud native software company, launched the first industry service mesh hub. The hub provides resources to help users adopt service mesh technology in hybrid and multi-cloud environments and features tools such as Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, AWS App Mesh, and HashiCorp Consul.
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HashiCorp Releases Consul 1.5.0 with Layer 7 Observability and Centralized Configuration
Hashicorp released version 1.5.0 of Consul, their service mesh application and key-value store. These are the first features released on their new roadmap for Consul, including support for L7 observability and load balancing via Envoy, centralized configuration, and ACL authentication support for trusted third-party applications.
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QCon NY (Jun 24-28): New Talks, a Focus on the Skills That Matter & Why You Should Join Us This Year
In the recent Stack Overflow 9th annual survey of over 90,000 software developers, we learned that non-development work remains a productivity challenge for software managers and leaders. At QCon New York, the conference for senior software developers, we have many sessions to help you learn how others have overcome those challenges.
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Introducing Traffic Director: Google's Service Mesh Control Plane
Traffic Director is GCP’s fully-managed traffic control plane for service meshes that offers resiliency, load balancing, and traffic control capabilities. Traffic Director is currently available as a beta release.
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Gloo Gateway Released for Kubernetes Knative
Gloo, an Envoy-based API Gateway by Solo.io, is the first official alternative to Istio for the Kubernetes Knative service. InfoQ reached out to Solo Founder Idit Levine to learn more about Gloo and its integration with Knative.
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Adopting Envoy as a Service-to-Service Proxy at Reddit
Reddit introduced Envoy into their backend framework as service-to-service proxy to support their ongoing architectural improvements. By adopting Envoy as a service-to-service Layer 4/Layer 7 proxy, they discovered significant improvements in observability, ease of adoption, and performance.
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KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2018 Summary: Kubernetes 1.13, Envoy Update, and New Hosted Projects
At the recent KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America events, held in Seattle, USA, a series of updates were provided about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosted projects. Highlights included the release of Kubernetes 1.13, an overview of the progress of the Envoy Proxy project, and the inclusion of the Rook storage orchestration and Harbor image registry projects.
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Kong 1.0 GA Released with Service Mesh Support and Plugin Development Kit
Kong Inc., has released Kong 1.0., the latest generally available (GA) version of their flagship API gateway. Although typically deployed at the edge of a network for the handling of external “north-south” API traffic, Kong also be can deployed as a “service mesh” in front of any backend service.
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AWS App Mesh: Hosted Service Mesh Control Plane for Envoy Proxy
Amazon has released AWS App Mesh, a service mesh that allows developers to standardise how microservices communicate, implement rules for communications between microservices, and capture metrics, logs, and traces directly into AWS services and third-party tools. App Mesh is effectively an AWS-specific hosted control plane for Envoy, an open source service mesh data plane proxy.
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The Many Faces of Envoy Proxy: Edge Gateway, Service Mesh, and Hybrid Networking Bridge
At the inaugural EnvoyCon in Seattle, USA, engineers from Pinterest, Yelp and Groupon presented their current use cases for the Envoy Proxy. The overarching message was that the Envoy Proxy appears to be moving closer to fulfilling its vision of providing the “universal [proxy] data plane API” for modern networking, including edge gateways, service meshes and hybrid networking bridges.
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Running Envoy as an Edge Proxy at eBay: Replacing Hardware Load Balancers with a Software Solution
At the inaugural EnvoyCon that ran in Seattle, USA, the eBay engineering team talked about running the Envoy Proxy at the edge as a replacement for hardware-based load balancers. Key learnings included that having a “programmable edge” provides many advantages and also several challenges.
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