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From YouTube: Open Source Summit: Service Mesh

Description

“What is the performance impact that a service mesh has?" "What overhead does being on the mesh incur?” By far, this is the most common questioned by engineers coming to with the value of functionality provided by a service mesh. Generally, this question goes unanswered.

In this session, the methodology and results of performance testing research done in collaboration with a university and through the lens an open source service mesh benchmark tool will be shared and discussed. The benchmarking tool will provide a common benchmark across service meshes (their control planes, like Istio) and modern proxies (their data planes, like Envoy) and will review a number of service mesh projects. In addition to performance, we’ll discuss the landscape of service meshes, characterize and contrast their functionality as well as their data plane and control plane architectures.

Speaker:
Lee Calcote - Founder, Layer5
William Morgan - CEO, Buoyant, Inc.
Manish Chugtu - CTO, Cloud Infrastructure and Microservices, Avi Networks
Zack Butcher - Founding Engineer, Tetrate
Haim Helman - CTO, Octarine
Spike Curtis - Senior Software Engineer, Tigera