Why Sidecars? Moving the Stack out of the Monolith




Containerization is not only a software delivery paradigm shift; it also represents an opportunity to add sophisticated systems technology to any stack via sidecars. Instead of building complex client libraries for every language your organization deploys, common sidecars can take care of authorization/authentication, service discovery, and monitoring.

In this talk, we’ll explore the patterns that have previously existed with practical examples of how they can be implemented in sidecars.

Speaker

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Greg Poirier

 
Greg Poirier is the VP of Engineering and a software engineer at Sensu, Inc. working on the next generation of its popular open source monitoring platform. After years as a systems administrator with ...