6 Resilience: Solving application networking challenges
This chapter covers
- Understanding the importance of resilience
- Leveraging client-side load balancing
- Implementing request timeouts and retries
- Circuit breaking and connection pooling
- Migrating from application libraries used for resilience
Once we have traffic coming into our cluster through the Istio ingress gateway (covered in chapter 4), we can manipulate the traffic at the request level and control exactly where to route the request. In the previous chapter, we covered traffic control for weighted routing, request-match-based routing, and certain types of release patterns that can then be enabled. We can also use this traffic control to route around problems in the event of application ...
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