Building a Secure, Performant Network Fabric for Microservice Applications
summary
Compares three concrete network architectures — proxy model, router mesh, and a fabric model that embeds NGINX Plus as a sidecar — showing how service discovery, load balancing, and persistent SSL connections actually get implemented. Gives a measured claim of 77x performance improvement from persistent connections in a photo‑site prototype, describes tooling used (kubernetes, nginx, NGINX Plus), and explains what failure isolation and health checks look like and how latency is reduced.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:53Agenda
- 1:31The Big Shift
- 5:40Nginx
- 7:20Nginx Plus
- 9:47Our Reference Application
- 11:59Load Balancing
- 15:14Attributes
- 15:34Proxy Model
- 17:44Ingress Controller
- 18:29Writer Mesh
- 22:34Fabric
- 28:55Summary
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