You probably DON’T need a Service Mesh!

Length: 60 minutes

Room: Room 4

Abstract

Service Mesh is becoming a key component in the Cloud Native world. It allows teams to connect, secure, and observe complex microservices environments built on containers and container orchestration tools. But most Service Mesh tools are also very complex and require a lot of engineering overhead to deploy and maintain. In this talk, we will explore the considerations you have to take into account before you commit to a Service Mesh-based stack. I had the opportunity to help customers design around Istio (one of the most famous Mesh tools) and learned a lot through the years. This talk is a distilled experience of the learnings I had.

Day & time

Wednesday, September 06, 5:00 – 6:00 PM

Intended audience

This talk is meant to be intractive. The idea is to give the audience some ideas on what they should think about before committing to implementing a Service Mesh-based architecture. I wrote an article about this (https://medium.com/me/stats/post/1a44abdeea31) and also recorded some podcasts and videos on the same topics. This would be my first time adapting the content into a conference format.

• Abdel Sghiouar

  Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate @Google Cloud. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Serverless. Abdel started his career in datacenters and infrastructure in Morocco where he is originally. Before moving to Google's largest EU datacenter in Belgium. Then in Sweden he joined Google Cloud Professional Services and spent 5 years working with Google Cloud customers on architecting and designing large scale distributed systems before turning to advocacy and community work.