The Australian Trading Solutions Team is responsible for handling the huge amounts of data that enter the business’ price management system day and night. And it’s critical that this data is available to the platform as quickly as possible.
The trading platform is based on Kubernetes and consists of approximately 300 microservices with over 3,000 pods per cluster distributed across multiple geographic regions.
To generate revenue, Entain relies on sports prices which are based on the probability of an outcome. As users bet on live events, the platform handles thousands of requests per second and the experience must be as real-time as possible. Any outage impacts not only the user experience but the accuracy of prices offered and, ultimately, revenues. Even a small latency hit can have huge implications.
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API now stable, more on the way
Tim Anderson Wed 17 Feb 2021 // 18:59 UTC Share
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Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), aimed at providing building blocks to simplify application development for Kubernetes.
Dapr is one of several Microsoft-sponsored open-source projects around Kubernetes, and perhaps the most immediately useful. Others include Open Service Mesh (OSM), which uses Envoy (like Istio) but is lighter weight (like Linkerd); and KEDA, in association with Red Hat, which supports serverless, event-driven containers on Kubernetes. Dapr was first announced in October 2019 and has been developed on GitHub.
The purpose of Dapr is to provide services, accessed via HTTP or gRPC, that can be called from any application, and meet some common requirements that can otherwise be tricky to implement. Specifically, Dapr provides:
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Group aims to represent the voice of the user
Tim Anderson Tue 2 Feb 2021 // 10:07 UTC Share
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The Linkerd project, a lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes, has formed a steering committee as it competes for developer attention with Google-sponsored Istio as well as other projects.
A service mesh adds essential features like traffic management, observability, and network security to microservices running on Kubernetes. Linkerd is implemented in Rust and its original creator, Buoyant CEO William Morgan, designed it to solve the service mesh problem in the simplest way possible, writing it in Rust for performance and memory safety.
Morgan said on Twitter last week that he was generally not a fan of steering committees. To me, they are associated with a certain bureaucratic style of open source projects with lots of SIGs, WGs, committees, meetings and process – running contrary to the Linkerd mantra of keep it simple, keep it small.