Open Source Summit + Automotive Linux Summit Japan 2019

As a microservice application grows in size and complexity, the behavior of its network can become harder to be understood and managed.

To solve such complex management problem, Istio, a project which provides lots of network key features such as load balancing, monitoring, security and so on to microservice applications, has been developed. It can significantly ease the strain on development teams.

However, although Istio has become ready for production since V1.0, utilization of Istio may not be appropriate for enterprise applications in which high performance is required, as Istio can cause additional network latency.

In this presentation, Shukun SONG will explain where the bottleneck of Istio is by profiling its action. And he will also introduce a solution idea which is based on deploying Mixer as daemonset and use data to show the effect this idea can bring.