As Mixer is in the request path, it is natural to question how it impacts overall system availability and latency. A common refrain we hear when people first glance at Istio architecture diagrams is “Isn’t this just introducing a single point of failure?” In this post, we’ll dig deeper and cover the design principles that underpin Mixer and the surprising fact Mixer actually increases overall mesh availability and reduces average request latency. Istio’s use of Mixer has two main be...| Istio Blog
Istio 0.2 introduced a new Mixer adapter model which is intended to increase Mixer’s flexibility to address a varied set of infrastructure backends. This post intends to put the adapter model in context and explain how it works. Why adapters? Infrastructure backends provide support functionality used to build services. They include such things as access control systems, telemetry capturing systems, quota enforcement systems, billing systems, and so forth. Services traditionally directly int...| Istio Blog