Podcasts

Mitchell Hashimoto on Consul since 1.2 and its Role as a Modern Service Mesh

In June of this year, Consul 1.2 was released. The release expanded Consul’s capability around service segmentation (controlling who and how services connect East and West). On this week’s podcast, Reisz and Hashimoto discuss Consul in detail.

Vaughn Vernon on Developing a Domain Driven Design First Actor-Based Microservices Framework

Vaughn Vernon has recently released a new open source project called vlingo. The platform is designed to support DDD at the framework and toolkit level. On today’s podcast, Vernon discusses what the framework is all about, why he felt it was needed, and some of the design decisions made in developing the platform.

Justin Cormack on Decomposing the Modern Operating System

Justin Cormack discusses how the modern operating system is being decomposed with toolkits and libraries such as LinuxKit, eBPF, XDP, and what the kernel space service mesh Cilium is doing. Wes Reisz and Justin Cormack also discuss how Cilium differs from service meshes like an Istio, Linkerd2 (previously Conduit), or Envoy.

Matt Klein on Lyft’s Envoy, Including Edge Proxy, Service Mesh, & Potential AI Use Cases

In this podcast, Wes Reisz talks to Matt Klein about Envoy. Envoy is a modern, high performance, small footprint edge and service proxy.

Martin Thompson on Aeron, Binary vs Text for Message Encoding, and Raft

Martin Thompson discusses consensus in distributed systems, and how Aeron uses Raft for clustering in the upcoming release.