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Preventing Systemic Failure: Backpressure—What It Is and How It Works

Pei-Ming Wu, 
In this blog post, we’ll take a deep-dive into understanding backpressure as an operational pattern, and how it can be applied to a service landscape that is controlled by a cloud traffic controller like Glasnostic.…

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What is an Organic (Microservice) Architecture?

Because Glasnostic is an operations solution that lets enterprises run the vast and continually evolving service landscapes that their teams create, we are often asked about our learnings and how they might apply to them. Our learnings tend to revolve around two facts. First, that subjecting each new service to a central “command and control” architecture is one of the biggest impediments to innovation. The second is realizing that a service landscape is ideally operated as an organic architecture....
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Should I Use a Service Mesh?

This post is the second of a two-part series on the benefits of service meshes. In part one we covered what a service mesh is, how it works and the benefits it provides. In this post we’ll explore why, where and when to use one and what lies beyond....
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What is a Service Mesh?

This post is the first of a two-part series on the benefits of service meshes. In this post, we cover what a service mesh is, how it works and the benefits it provides. In part two we’ll explore why, where and when to use one and what lies beyond....

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The ease with which applications and services can be developed today is of great benefit to businesses. But the proliferation of applications, microservices and serverless functions creates a jungle of services that is impossible to control and results in considerable loss to the business if left unmanaged. Glasnostic is a realtime operations solution that lets digital enterprises control the complex emergent behaviors that their connected applications and services exhibit so they can innovate faster and with confidence.

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Preventing Systemic Failure: Backpressure—What It Is and How It Works

In this blog post, we’ll take a deep-dive into understanding backpressure as an operational pattern, and how it can be applied to a service landscape that is controlled by a cloud traffic controller like Glasnostic....
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Comparing Service Meshes: Linkerd vs. Istio

Organizations across all industry verticals are continuing to accelerate their adoption of microservices. This has led to a corresponding explosion in the use of containers and client/service communications. It has proven very challenging to manage these communications securely, at-scale and with observability....
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Security: Segmentation—What Is It and How Does It Work?

In this blog post, we’re explaining segmentation as an operational pattern and how it can be applied to a service landscape that is controlled by a cloud traffic controller like Glasnostic....
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What is an Organic (Microservice) Architecture?

Because Glasnostic is an operations solution that lets enterprises run the vast and continually evolving service landscapes that their teams create, we are often asked about our learnings and how they might apply to them. Our learnings tend to revolve around two facts. First, that subjecting each new service to a central “command and control” architecture is one of the biggest impediments to innovation. The second is realizing that a service landscape is ideally operated as an organic architecture....
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How Does Glasnostic Complement Istio?

When working with customers who have heard about service meshes, we often get questions about how we work with and complement Istio....
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The 2019 Microservices Ecosystem

Despite the hype, most companies are just getting started with their microservices and container adoption journeys. Throw in a little marketing hyperbole, some competitive FUD, and it’s no surprise to hear from both operations teams and executives a bit of confusion as to which projects, products or services are the most appropriate to evaluate, based on where they are in their microservices journey....
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A Brief Introduction to Linkerd

Linkerd (rhymes with “chickadee”) is an open source service mesh designed to be deployed into a variety of container schedulers and frameworks such as Kubernetes. It became the original “service mesh” when its creator Buoyant first coined the term in 2016....
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Microservices Glossary

In this post, we’ve gathered many of the common (and some not so common!) terms, patterns and products developers and operators reference when describing various aspects of a modern microservices architecture. In this post, we’ll look at architecture and components, operational patterns and techniques, and finally, products and projects....
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What is an API Gateway?

An API Gateway is a reverse proxy that exposes microservices as APIs. As the name implies, it acts as a “gatekeeper” between clients and microservices, dealing with what is often called “north-south” traffic. Typical features of an API Gateway include the ability to authenticate requests, enforce security policies, load balance between backend services and throttle them if necessary....
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The Kubernetes Service Mesh: A Brief Introduction to Istio

In this blog we explore what the Istio service mesh is, its architecture, when and where to use it, plus some criticisms of the platform....
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2018 in Review: The Biggest Developments around Microservices, API Gateways, Kubernetes and Service Mesh

2018 was an exciting year for both, open source developers and vendors in the microservices and API space. In this post, we’ll recap the major developments and product announcements, plus make a few predictions for 2019....
2018 in Review: The Biggest Developments around Microservices, API Gateways, Kubernetes and Service Mesh

Should I Use a Service Mesh?

This post is the second of a two-part series on the benefits of service meshes. In part one we covered what a service mesh is, how it works and the benefits it provides. In this post we’ll explore why, where and when to use one and what lies beyond....
Air traffic over Great Britain

What is a Service Mesh?

This post is the first of a two-part series on the benefits of service meshes. In this post, we cover what a service mesh is, how it works and the benefits it provides. In part two we’ll explore why, where and when to use one and what lies beyond....
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Dealing with the ‘Gotchas’ When Deploying Microservices

It can be said that microservices have created a great disturbance in the force when it comes to building apps and the monolithic 3-tier development architecture that we’ve known so well for many years....
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Glasnostic, or How to Operate a Service Landscape

My how the world has changed. As a former “PaaS guy” — I was the technical founder of a company that became Red Hat OpenShift — I...
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