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Creating a servicegraph with Kiali and Istio
Last time, we’ve set up Minikube with Istio, and we’ve deployed our application using Kubernetes. Today, we’ll see how we can use Kiali with Istio to visualise our service dependencies. Enabling...
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Reactive relational databases with R2DBC and Spring
In the past, we’ve covered how to use reactive programming with Project Reactor and Spring. Around that time, I mentioned that the support for databases was limited due to the amount of blocking JDBC...
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Reactive streams over the network with RSocket
RSocket is a protocol that allows you to reactively stream data over the network. One of the benefits of RSocket is that the header of the frame itself is being sent in binary. This reduces the overal...
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Collecting application metrics with Istio
In my earlier tutorials, I’ve explained how you can set up your own Prometheus and Grafana containers with Docker, and how you can configure them for Spring boot and nginx. A nice feature of Istio, is...
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Distributed tracing with Istio and Jaeger
So far, we’ve already explored some of the elements Istio provides, such as visualizing our service mesh with Kiali, and monitoring our application metrics with Prometheus and Grafana. In this...
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