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How to Tame Your Service APIs: Evolving Airbnb’s Architecture
Jessica Tai discusses the challenges scaling to hundreds of services, how to simplify APIs, the trade-offs in API design, and how to test and operate flexible aggregator APIs and service blocks.
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Life of a Packet through Istio
Matt Turner talks about Istio - a service mesh for Kubernetes that offers advanced networking features. He gives insight into Istio’s full power, and its architecture.
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Airbnb’s Great Migration: Building Services at Scale
Jessica Tai recaps her QCon SF 2018 “Great Migration” presentation then continues the story with a focus on how Airbnb is building, operating, and scaling its expanding network of services.
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Develop Hundreds of Kubernetes Services at Scale with Airbnb
Melanie Cebula identifies key problems that make out-of-the-box Kubernetes less friendly to developers, and strategies for addressing them, based on Airbnb’s experience.
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Planting the Service Design Seeds at CBC
Hira Javed discusses the increasing adoption of the service design discipline, and CBC's adventures in embracing this approach.
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Bootiful Testing
Mario Gray and Josh Long discuss how to test Spring applications, services, and web applications, ensuring that API producers and API consumers work well together.
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Efficient Service Communication with gRPC
Petra Bierleutgeb takes a look at gRPC, discussing how its support for HTTP/2, protocol buffers, type-safety and others makes it an alternative to REST/JSON-based service communication.
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Expand Cloud Foundry for the Enterprise
Tim Leong discusses how Comcast leverages BOSH, the Service Broker API and Custom Buildpacks to add functionality to their DevOps teams to deploy and maintain geographically dispersed applications.
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Istio - Weaving the Service Mesh
Louis Ryan discusses Istio, a tool which provides a common networking, security, telemetry and policy substrate for service meshes which help transitioning to microservices.
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How to Build Spring Services for Cloud-Native Platforms Using the Open Service Broker API
Matthew McNeeney and Sam Gunaratne discuss how to build services that can be deployed once and consumed anywhere with the Open Service Broker API.
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Generating Unified APIs with Protocol Buffers and gRPC
Chris Roche and Christopher Burnett discuss how they extended the Protocol Buffer (PB) IDL to create unified APIs and data models, and how they used Envoy to move HTTP 1.1 services to gRPC.
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Resilient Functional Service Design
Uwe Friedrichsen explores how much functional design affects the overall robustness of a solution to learn how to deliver a better "resilient functional service design".
