How Linkerd Helped bink Partner up with Barclays
summary
bink moves from on‑prem to Azure Kubernetes, hits transient TCP disconnects, DNS timeouts and lost UDP, and adopts Linkerd service mesh with mTLS and automatic proxy injection. Linkerd supplies Prometheus metrics, Buoyant Cloud dashboards, and transparent client retries; a chaos demo shows failures of ~1 in 10 (roughly 89% success) rising to near‑100% success after retries. That operational visibility and measured SLOs lets bink agree to Barclays’ latency and success‑rate SLAs and serve ~25 million UK customers.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Payment linking benefits
- 3:50Bink’s Barclays partnership
- 4:11Bare metal to cloud native
- 6:58Cloud reliability challenges
- 9:26Linkerd for service mesh
- 11:10Linkerd retry demo
- 16:48Monitoring with Buoyant Cloud
- 17:31Q&A
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