Hybrid infrastructure load balancing

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

Wanny Morellato & Deepak Mohandas from Kong join Justin & Autumn to discuss building, testing & running a load balancer that can run anywhere.

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Featuring:

• Wanny Morellato – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Deepak Mohandas – LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Infrastructure regrets and endorsements after 4 years
• Reddit signing deal with AI company
• This Week I Learned (TWIL):
  • Conventional Commits
  • Threat model cookbook

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. This is Ship It! (00:00:08)

2. The opener (00:00:40)

3. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:16:14)

https://firehydrant.com/signals

4. What is Kong? (00:18:45)

5. Importance of hybrid infrastructure (00:20:58)

6. Kong deployment models (00:23:16)

7. Managing infrastructure (00:26:30)

8. What handoffs look like (00:27:34)

9. Continuous deployment & rollouts (00:30:04)

10. Handling changes in dependencies (00:33:27)

11. Kong x Ingress (00:37:27)

12. Handling customer feedback & changes (00:39:18)

13. Kong's part in the ecosystem (00:42:22)

14. Gaining customer trust (00:44:48)

15. Balancing automation (00:47:51)

16. Failure modes (00:51:41)

17. Where to reach out (00:55:01)

18. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:56:22)

https://changelog.com/news

19. The closer (00:57:57)

20. Outro (01:05:32)