Beyond the Basics: Diving Deeper into Microservices Tooling

Microservices have grown in popularity as the architectural style of choice for many developers and organizations, mainly due to their modularity and scalability. We've previously discussed the foundational tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Prometheus, and Jaeger. These tools have now become staples in the microservices world. But what about the other tools that didn't make the spotlight? Here, we'll dive into some of the 'hidden gems' of microservices tooling that any aspiring developer should be familiar with.

1. Envoy: The High-Performance Proxy

Overview:
Envoy is a high-performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications. It supports HTTP/2 and gRPC for more efficient service communication.

Technical Insight:
Envoy’s out-of-process architecture separates the tool from the application code. This means that Envoy works with any service, regardless of the language it’s written in. Envoy provides a unified data plane and supports service discovery, load balancing, TLS termination, HTTP/2 & gRPC proxies, circuit breakers, health checks, staged rollouts, and more.

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  listeners:
  - address:
      socket_address:
        address: 0.0.0.0…