Istio as a monolith

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Istio consolidates its former ~6 control-plane services (Pilot, Galley, Citadel, Mixer, Injector, etc.) into istiod single binary, keeping the same API while cutting inter-component chatter and pod count. Operators get simpler upgrades (canary by replacing one pod), reduced Kubernetes overhead, faster startup and responsiveness, much easier debugging by checking one set of logs, and straightforward mesh expansion to VMs or bare metal. Mixer’s previous scaling hotspots are now internalized so overall resource use and maintenance effort go down.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:49Before
3. 1:38Why Microservices
4. 6:45Advantages
5. 8:16Architectural Review
6. 8:46Independent Scaling
7. 10:28Users
8. 11:08Operations
9. 15:38User experience
10. 16:17Monolith vs Microservices
11. 18:20Microservices
12. 18:37Container Solutions
13. 19:06Audience Question
14. 19:20Single Binary Architecture
15. 20:11Outro

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