Kubernetes API Gateway
Podcast Interview with Krishna Modi
As they say, the one thing in life you can count on is change. Our latest guest on Livin' On the Edge podcast, Krishna Modi, a Cloud Engineer at Cisco. The discussion covered a range of topics, including Krishna's professional journey, Cisco’s evolution, Identity and Access Management (IAM), trends in API gateways, and the rise of platform engineering.
What Krishna shared included insights about how companies must evolve in a cloud-native world, and that developer teams need to take platform engineering seriously. Here’s a rundown:
October 4, 2023 | 6 min read
Kubernetes API Gateway
Let’s assume your family is organizing a large dinner party. Due to health concerns, each family member has different dietary requirements and preferences, so you'll need to carefully spread ingredients and resources to ensure everyone has a filling meal. But then problems started to arise - some family members unexpectedly brought guests while others had larger appetites which led to a sudden rise in the demand for more food. So it became challenging to distribute food proportionately to everyone.
This is similar to the challenges of improving resource allocation in Kubernetes, where applications have varying resource requirements. It is critical to balance performance and cost while ensuring efficient resource use. When an application running in a Kubernetes cluster utilizes more resources (such as CPU, memory, or storage) than it should, it can cause performance concerns and system crashes. Worse, troubleshooting resource allocation issues in Kubernetes can be difficult, especially when working with a remote cluster.
In this article, we will look at common Kubernetes resource allocation issues, how to identify them, the problems they cause, and best practices on how to effectively optimize resource allocation in Kubernetes to achieve better performance and scalability.
Challenges of optimizing resource allocation in Kubernetes
October 4, 2023 | 14 min read
Telepresence
Telepresence 2.16 has several new features, including an IDE plugin and the most-asked-for feature from Telepresence v1!
Earlier this year, we started focusing on bringing Telepresence closer to where developers use it everyday: in their terminal and editor. The Docker Desktop extension and Docker Compose integrations we shipped in previous releases were the start of that effort, and we continue it with Telepresence 2.16, which brings several new features:
Replace Container functionality
October 3, 2023 | 5 min read
Kubernetes API Gateway
Virtual. Free. 100% Open Source.
KubeCon NA is just around the corner, and that means KubeCrash, the Chicago warm-up, is almost here too! Join us on October 18 for a virtual, free, and 100% open source-focused conference. This time around, we'll dive deep into cooperative multi-cluster deployments at enterprise scale. Check out the program and register today.
Multi-cluster deployments at enterprise scale
September 30, 2023 | 7 min read
Telepresence
As we set the course to create the best unrivaled Kubernetes-native solutions that fuel a positive developer experience, we realized that we needed a new website to match that same experience level. Our recent launch of a new website delivers a better online user experience while supporting our goal of making Ambassador Labs the essential component for developers to reduce the complexities and fuel collaboration as they build and ship applications across Kubernetes.
Our website now offers a user-friendly design and the most complete set of resources available to help Kubernetes developers uplevel their skills. An intuitive interface fuels a better engagement experience so visitors can find the information they’re looking for easily and fast.
September 27, 2023 | 4 min read
Kubernetes API Gateway
As technology advances, so do the techniques and tools used for building applications. APIs have become increasingly prominent over the years, now widely used for exchanging data between two or more systems in the digital landscape.
Today, there are numerous ways to handle application integrations and develop APIs. However, two specific methods for enabling software communication in your project stand out: Event-Driven APIs and Request-Driven RESTful APIs.
While both approaches aim to achieve the same goals, their underlying architecture, data flow, and scaling techniques differ. In this article, we will explore the evolution of event-driven and request-driven (RESTful) APIs, their differences, and the benefits they offer. Finally, we will discuss when to use one over the other.
June 28, 2023 | 10 min read
