Recently, while preparing for our Alpha launch, I ran across a very strange issue that took the better part of a day to debug. I thought it would be a great idea to share my findings here so that others might benefit from my tribulations. First, a little background… At…

Imagine you’re a Spring developer working for company X on a micro-service based platform with services written in Java/Spring Boot and deployed using Kubernetes (Docker). Your various services communicate with one another using JSON over HTTP, making things simple. You assume that all inter-process communication happens over your “trusted” network…