Service mesh implementation and usage continues to gain momentum, but where is the technology headed? With new developments related to Wasm, eBPF, GraphQL, and more playing an increasingly important role in how service mesh works and what it can provide for teams and users, it’s important to understand what evolution in the space means for you. In this session, find out how service mesh is growing, and how it’s helping companies deliver greater value to their end users.

Christian Posta (@christianposta) is VP, Global Field CTO at Solo.io. He is the author of Istio in Action as well as many other books on cloud-native architecture and is well known in the cloud-native community for being a speaker, blogger (https://blog.christianposta.com) and contributor to various open-source projects in the service mesh and cloud-native ecosystem (Istio, Kubernetes, et. al.). Christian has spent time at government, commercial enterprises as well as web-scale companies and now helps organizations create and deploy large-scale, cloud-native, resilient, distributed architectures. He enjoys mentoring, training and leading teams to be successful with distributed systems concepts, microservices, DevOps, and cloud-native application design.