Ep. 184 Managing Microservices in a Complex Federal Environment

 

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If you read federal mandates, “continuous monitoring” is becoming popular. If you type the phrase into Google Trends, you will see a drastic rise in the past five years.

However, very few people can detail ways to implement this noble policy.

Today, we sit down with Branden Wood from Tetrate to explore an option that can assist federal leaders in taking a strong step toward the elusive goal of Zero Trust and continuous monitoring.

The answer involves understanding something called the service mesh. This is a concept of a service layer whose entire purpose is to monitor communication between services in an application. Many benefits accrue from using this sophisticated form of communication.

For example, one can execute load balancing, encrypt data, and discover other running services. The discovery process may have the most impact on cybersecurity.

In today’s complicated software development world, automated processes may generate unexpected activity. Even an experienced software developer may not be able to recognize the impact of the code he has released.

Service mesh architecture begins with providing observability, reliability, and security in today’s large-scale microservices architecture.

During the interview, Branden Wood references Air Force’s Platform One as a federal organization that has embraced Tetrate to provide secure code in this increasingly dangerous world.