DevConf.us 2018 is the 1st annual, free, Red Hat sponsored technology conference for community project and professional contributors to Free and Open Source technologies held at the Boston University in the historic city of Boston, USA.
When: Friday, August 17 to Sunday, August 19, 2018
Some companies that were born for the cloud, such as Netflix, for example, identified early on that in order to provide resilient services on a cloud world the application would have to protect itself from abnormalities in the environment it is part of.
At the time the Netflix OSS stack was created, virtual machines were essentially the only way you could run applications on the cloud and they had chosen Java as the language platform for the service mesh-like capabilities and apart from the Java-only aspect, companies that wanted to enforce the usage of those technologies could not do it at the platform level. Istio delivers service mesh control at the platform level and you'll see why you need in this session.
