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Authors: Melanie Cebula
2022-10-27

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The presentation discusses the process of implementing multi-architectures in Airbnb's infrastructure to improve price and performance.
  • Focus on one or two workloads that have a business need for better price and performance
  • Form a small pilot group with subject matter experts
  • Upgrade and migrate operating system, languages, runtimes, and open source software
  • Automate the process of building, uploading, and signing packages
  • Invest in performance tooling and analysis
Authors: Stephen Chan, Weibo He
2021-10-13

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Airbnb's experience of building a multi-cluster/multi-environment service mesh on top of Istio
  • Airbnb migrated from monolith architecture to SOA and majority of workloads from EC2 to Kubernetes
  • Legacy in-house service mesh no longer met their needs
  • Adopted Istio as the foundation for their next generation service mesh
  • Established confidence in Istio and started full speed migration
  • Multi-cluster requirement led to adoption of external control plane and flat network model
  • Multi-environment support includes multi-tier mesh, mesh expansion, and external services
Authors: Evan Sheng, David Morrison
2021-10-13

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Airbnb's journey to heterogeneous clusters and the technical and organizational hurdles they faced in migrating from homogeneous clusters
  • Airbnb migrated from running homogeneous Kubernetes clusters to heterogeneous clusters to improve cost and efficiency
  • Changes were required in almost every part of their infrastructure to support multiple different node types
  • They faced three specific technical and organizational hurdles in this journey
  • Heterogeneous clusters have been instrumental for Airbnb and their team