STT E52: Service Mesh 101

Stevey's Tech Talk

Hey folks! Today's episode is an intro to Service Meshes.
There are many, many players in this space, and I only talk about a few of them. Notably I left out Buoyant, which provides a mesh based on linkerd. So this is not a full comparison of all possible options. But it does cover a lot of the big ones.
This episode has some sound and picture issues. I recorded it in my guitar/music studio instead of my regular studio, because I am considering consolidating them and wanted to try out a temp setup. It worked OK, but I had some serious mic issues in the middle, and lots of extraneous noise and bumps. For which I apologize!
Also, everything in this second studio is not as good -- the lights, the mic, the audio interface, the green screen, pretty much the whole setup. So it doesn't look great. I'll keep tinkering with it. I'm sure it'll get better.
Fair warning: My talk today is heavily biased towards HashiCorp products, which are generally open source, albeit with enterprise features -- a standard industry model. I also give some strong shoutouts to Kong Inc. I am not in ANY way affiliated with HashCorp nor Kong Inc, and nobody has paid me to do this talk. This is all just my personal opinions from having worked with some of the technologies in question.
In last week's episode I had the (hopefully original) insight that managers are the data plane in the company's "organizational service architecture". This episode should give you enough background that we can explore that analogy further in an upcoming episode. Should be fun!
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