Day Two Cloud 117: How Akamai Helped Transform IBM Cloud Console’s Architecture (Sponsored)

Today on the Day Two Cloud podcast we have a sponsored show with Akamai and an Akamai customer, IBM Cloud. When IBM  rebuilt its Cloud Console from a monolithic application to microservices, the company turned to Akamai. Akamai was essential in helping IBM Cloud Console improve application performance while also supporting the routing, failover, and availability across six global data centers. Akamai is the world’s largest distributed edge compute platform. To deliver and protect your digital experiences worldwide, tap into Akamai for its unrivaled intelligence, performance, and scalability. Because Akamai has 10x the locations of the nearest competitor (that’s over 4,000 locations!) you are always closer to your end user with Akamai – significantly cutting down on latency. With EdgeWorkers, your development teams can focus on building while letting Akamai take care of the challenges of scaling globally. Our guests are Pavel Despot, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Akamai; and Tony Erwin, Senior Technical Staff Member/Architect at IBM. We discuss: * The difficulties of moving from a monolith to microservices * Akamai’s approach to improving IBM Cloud Console performance * How Akamai accelerated non-cachable content such as APIs * Developing the routing logic to support a microservices architecture * Working across six global data centers * Migrating the application while also keeping the service alive * Akamia’s Web app firewall and DDoS protection * More Show Links: Akamai.com/packetpushers @akamai – Akamai on Twitter Pavel Despot on LinkedIn IBM Cloud Automatically load balance auto scaling services via Akamai APIs – YouTube Evolving the IBM Cloud console with microservices: A Node.js success story – IBM Global IBM Cloud Console Architecture – Tony Erwin TonyErwin.com – Tony Erwin’s blog : www.tonyerwin.com @tonyerwin – Tony Erwin on Twitter Tony Erwin on LinkedIn Transcript: [00:00:06.590] – Ethan Welcome to day two cloud. We got a sponsorship with Akamai today. Akamai is chatting with their customer, IBM Cloud. Yeah, that IBM Cloud, the one you’ve heard of and their product, IBM Cloud console. The thing that you would interact with if you’re consuming IBM Cloud service, they had to rebuild this thing soup to nuts and went from monolith to micro services. [00:00:27.840] – Ethan But, Ned, not just because microservices are so cool [00:00:31.230] No, and they were literally repainting the airplane and redesigning the airplane while flying the Darn thing, and they managed to get it done. They managed to land this sucker. And what was really important about it was they weren’t just doing it because it was some new cool technology. They weren’t adopting Kubernetes for Kubernetes sake.