Here’s @oliver’s recent talk from CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe, alongside Oliver Gould CTO at Buoyant.
In this talk, we describe how Monzo processes financial transactions involving real money and real people in way that’s safe, secure, and resilient. We show how combining Kubernetes with Linkerd creates a highly adaptive system, where Kubernetes provides a baseline level of protection against hardware and software failures and Linkerd layers on request-level resilience, including including latency-aware load-balancing, intelligent retries, and service-level measures of success rates and latency. We show how the resulting system is resilient to a wide variety of failures and protects the financial transactions that flow through it from failure, yet still allows for a rapid pace of feature development and iteration.