May 2017 Summaries

Hoverfly allows developers to simulate APIs and test for latency and failures, ensuring interactions with other microservices don't change unexpectedly when code changes are made. Lyft Envoy and Ambassador provide an API gateway that exposes microservices easily, allowing for the monitoring of traffic and messages in production. Telepresence enables developers to swap out running code on a staging cluster with code running on their laptop, facilitating manual testing and debugging in a realistic environment.

Istio is a service mesh for microservices built on Lyft Envoy, adding resilience and observability without requiring bespoke engineering. Istio's inaugural 0.1 release marks a significant milestone in its development, with the support of key players like Lyft, Google, and IBM. The Edge Stack API Gateway integrates seamlessly with Istio, enabling organizations to route external traffic into an Istio-powered service mesh while extending layer 7 resilience, observability, and security to the edge.