Ahmed's Tech Blog

Istio, or any service mesh as a matter of fact, represents an abstraction layer of the service to service communication in a distributed architecture. This opens the door to a lot of powerful feature and control over the traffic flowing in and out of the system such as Observability ,... [Read More]

Istio comes with a hand full of features aiming to solve the modern technical problems arising from the shift of monolith application to distributed microservice architecture, In this blog entry we are going to explore Traffic Management, one of the core features of a service mesh. For a better understanding... [Read More]

I am starting this blog series about Service Meshes taking Istio, the most stable and production ready, as an example throughout the rest of the series but let’s start first by what is actually a service mesh and we dig deep into core functionalities and benefetis of using it and... [Read More]

Let’s go through some facts before we drill down to the concrete stuff, Containers are ephemeral and stateless in nature which raises already a couple of question marks around the topic of having SQL Server running on containers within your Kubernetes cluster, Cause the fact is when we think about... [Read More]