Microservice Architectures with Apache Kafka, Kubernetes and Service Mesh (Envoy, Istio, Linkerd)

Microservice architectures are not free lunch! Microservices need to be decoupled, flexible, operationally transparent, data aware and elastic. Most material from last years only discusses point-to-point architectures with inflexible and non-scalable technologies like REST / HTTP. This video takes a look at cutting edge technologies like Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Envoy, Linkerd and Istio to implement a cloud-native service mesh to solve these challenges and bring microservices to the next level of scale, speed and efficiency. Key takeaways: - Apache Kafka decouples services, including event streams and request-response - Kubernetes provides a cloud-native infrastructure for the Kafka ecosystem - Service Mesh helps with security and observability at ecosystem / organization scale - Envoy and Istio sit in the layer above Kafka and are orthogonal to the goals Kafka addresses Slide Deck: