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DoorDash Uses Service Mesh and Cell-Based Architecture to Significantly Reduce Data Transfer Costs
In a recent move, DoorDash has significantly optimized its cloud infrastructure costs. The company faced increased cross-AZ data transfer costs when transitioning to a microservices architecture. To substantially reduce this cost, DoorDash implemented zone-aware routing with its Envoy-based service mesh, taking advantage of its Cell-Based Architecture.
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Reddit Unveils REV2: Modernised Rule-Execution with Kubernetes, Kafka, and Flink Stateful Functions
Reddit's Safety Engineering team recently published how it modernised its Rule-Execution system, which detects and acts on policy-violating content in real time. The new architecture includes improvements like transitioning from legacy EC2-based systems to Kubernetes, better rule version control with Github and S3 storage, and the capability to scale more efficiently with Flink Stateful Functions.
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Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars and Highly Fault-Tolerant Design
Atlassian recently published how it exceeded 99.9999% of availability with its Tenant Context Service. Atlassian achieved this high availability by implementing highly-autonomous client sidecars, able to proactively shield themselves from complete AWS region failures. Sidecars query multiple services concurrently to accomplish this goal and ensure that requests are entirely isolated internally.
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ServiceMeshCon Summary: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Located Event
Christian Posta form Solo.io discussed multi-cluster and multi-mesh patterns at the recent ServiceMeshCon event which was held as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Conference. There were also talks on Istio architecture, WebAssembly for Istio telemetry and iteratively implementing Istio service mesh with no downtime.
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What Comes after Microservices? Multi-Runtime Microservices with Bilgin Ibryam at QCon London
Bilgin Ibryam talked at QCon London about the evolution of distributed systems on Kubernetes and the future architecture trends. Ibryam said that the next trend would be to decouple infrastructure concerns from microservices. Ibryam calls this multi-runtime microservices, a service with business logic along with a sidecar in charge of state management, networking, binding, and lifecycle.
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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.