Podcasts

Service Meshes and Linkerd with William Morgan

Today on the podcast, we talk about Linkerd and the larger Service Mesh space with William Morgan (CEO of Buoyant).

Oliver Gould on the Three Pillars of Service Mesh, SMI, and Making Technology Bets

In this podcast, we summarise the evolution of the service mesh concept, with a focus on the three pillars: visibility, security, and reliability. We explore the new traffic “tap” feature within Linkerd that allows near real-time in-situ querying of metrics and discuss how to implement network security by leveraging the primitives like Service Account provided by Kubernetes.

Oliver Gould on Service Mesh for Microservices, LinkerD, and the Recently Released Conduit

Wes Reisz talks with the CTO of Bouyant Oliver Gould. Bouyant is the maker the LinkerD Service Mesh and the recently released Conduit. Gould defines a service mesh, clarifies the meaning of the data and control plane, discusses what a Service Mesh can offer a Microservice application owners, and, finally, discusses some of the considerations they took into account developing Conduit.

Security Considerations and the State of Microservices with Sam Newman

Wesley Reisz talks with Sam Newman about microservices. They explore the current state of the art with regards to the architectural style and corresponding tooling and deployment platforms. They then discuss how microservices increase the surface area of where sensitive information can be read or manipulated, but also have the potential to create systems that are more secure.