DeveloperWeek 2023

Tim Szigeti, Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems

Description
Businesses are shifting to microservice-based application architectures, as these support rapid development with flexibility, stability, security, and scale. However, these architectures present new connectivity challenges that traditional networking approaches simply cannot meet. Many businesses are deploying or considering service mesh technology to meet these challenges, but are daunted by their inherent technical complexity. In this session, we will show how Cisco is applying its 30 years of networking leadership to Cloud Native application architectures, by introducing a new technology solution called Calisti. Specifically, we will see how Calisti simplifies the management of a service mesh, how it integrates visibility and provides early insights into application performance issues, as well as how it easily enables advanced use-cases, such as canary deployments with traffic management, circuit breaking, interconnection-encryption, multi-tenancy and others.

Takeaways
1. Calisti enables powerful observability, encryption and traffic management capabilities for cloud native applications
2. Calisti supports both synchronous and asynchronous applications, such as Apache Kafka
3. Calisti reduces developer toil

#kafka #service-mesh #slos