Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required

"We're going to talk about cloud native hybrid networking or whatever that actually means. I don't think anybody really knows exactly what it means. Some of the patterns and things that I've seen talking to people trying to do this kind of stuff. Where they're coming from. What they're trying to get to. The struggles that they have. Maybe a little bit of a brief interlude with a bit of a philosophical rant just to keep things entertaining."

"This is my background. I ran Google's API management platform for about a decade. I helped create something called gRPC in open source. I work on an open-source project called Istio, which is involved in the cloud native hybrid networking service meshy space. I work now for a company called Solo. Probably the most important point of this whole thing is I am not a networking person."

"If you feel like you've been sold a bill of goods, my background is in applications, in APIs, and services, and the communication patterns between those things. My background is not in configuring routers. It is not in configuring firewalls, although I have done such horrible things in the past. I do not consider myself a networking infrastructure person. That said, I do have some opinions about what networks can and should be doing,"

Ran Google's API management platform for about a decade and contributed to gRPC and the Istio project, with current work at Solo in the cloud-native hybrid networking and service-mesh space. Background centers on applications, APIs, services, and inter-service communication patterns rather than traditional router or firewall configuration. Networks excel at moving bits quickly but lag in richer abstractions and application-aware features that modern services require. Many teams attempting cloud-native hybrid networking face challenges aligning existing network primitives with service-oriented needs. Networks must elevate functionality to provide necessary abstractions and features that applications depend on.

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