Lightning Talk

Introductory

Reliability is not just about Balancing Loads

10:40 - 10:50 AM ET ; Epic Hall Room

In a conversation, it came up that using load-balancers solves the reliability challenge.


The truth? It actually doesn’t. It’s a small portion of the strategy.


Around 2012, I dove into the world of Disaster Recovery and realized we could try everything but failures ​can and will happen.


To minimize this is to be proactive and know how to respond to something before it falls over. We couldn’t ​really do this in 2012, but 2024? We absolutely can.


So if it’s not just about balancing loads…


What is Reliability?


- Right-sized workloads and infrastructure

- Policies that address missing guardrails

- Reducing service latency

- Reducing tooling and login fatigue

- streamlined proactive maintainance

- Proactive capacity and capability planning

- Strategic MTTR reduction

- the infrastructure like load balancers and a solidly fast network (because I love

- Working name resolution

- Redundant network pathways

- Retries, resiliency, and service invocation planning

- A system that consolidates all workload and infra metadata/events/logs for review (maybe Komodor 😏?)


I could keep going…


The DR story transformed into the Reliability narrative…We now design assuming things CAN and WILL fail…


What do you think? How do we make our systems more reliable?


Is Kubernetes the answer? Maybe.


I’ll be @ KubeHuddle this Tuesday May 7th to share my thoughts.

Marino Wijay

Marino Wijay is a Canadian, Traveller, International Speaker, Open Source Advocate for Service Mesh, Kubernetes, and Networking. He is an Ambassador @ Civo Cloud, and Lead Organizer for KubeHuddle Toronto. He is passionate about technology and modern distributed systems. He will always fall back to the patterns of Networking and the ways of the OSI. Community building is his driving force; A modern Jedi Academy.



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