The Monolith Strikes Back: Why Istio Migrated From Microservices to a Monolithic Architecture

Early evidence on the gains and pains of microservices has started to emerge in academic publications and industry forums. However, there are still relatively few industrial reports on microservice projects in which the pains outweigh the gains. This article reports on the design decisions, tradeoff...

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 38; no. 5; pp. 17 - 22
Main Authors Mendonca, Nabor C., Box, Craig, Manolache, Costin, Ryan, Louis
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.09.2021
IEEE Computer Society
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Best practice
Best practices
Cloud computing
Computer architecture
Internet
Software development
Software development management
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Summary:Early evidence on the gains and pains of microservices has started to emerge in academic publications and industry forums. However, there are still relatively few industrial reports on microservice projects in which the pains outweigh the gains. This article reports on the design decisions, tradeoffs, and lessons learned from one such projects-the Istio open source service mesh that adopted microservices early on and recently migrated to a monolithic architecture.
ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2021.3080335