Workshop: Loadshedding and Isolation Using Envoy Proxy

Tuesday, 29 October, 2024 - 11:0015:30 GMT

Laura Nolan; Niall Murphy, Stanza

Abstract: 

Effective load management is a core aspect of the SRE role. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to a number of Envoy Proxy features that are used for loadshedding and isolation, such as circuit breaking, adaptive concurrency, and ratelimiting. As part of the practical element of the workshop, participants will interact with Envoy configurations and status/control pages and endpoints, as well as Envoy’s telemetry.

Prerequisites: please arrive with a laptop with docker-compose installed. Information on setting up docker-compose is available at https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Laura Nolan[node:field-speakers-institution]

Laura Nolan has contributed to several books on SRE, such as the Site Reliability Engineering book, Seeking SRE, and 97 Things Every SRE Should Know, and is currently is completing her MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety at Lund University. Laura is a member of the USENIX board of directors and a long-time SREcon volunteer. She lives in rural Ireland in a small village full of medieval ruins.

Niall Murphy, Stanza

Niall is the CEO of Stanza Systems, has occupied various engineering and leadership roles in Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, and is the instigator of the best-selling & prize-winning Site Reliability Engineering, which he hopes at some stage to live down. His most recent book is Reliable Machine Learning, with Todd Underwood and many others.

BibTeX
@conference {302165,
author = {Laura Nolan and Niall Murphy},
title = {Workshop: Loadshedding and Isolation Using Envoy Proxy},
year = {2024},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}