A sidecar proxy is an application design pattern which abstracts certain networking features, such as inter-service communications, monitoring and security, timeouts, retries, communication protocols, away from the main architecture to ease the maintenance of the application as a whole.

In this video I’d like to talk about how we classically do things:

Examples

Pros

Cons

Library 2:25

Sidecar: 7:40

Example: 13:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp3Ku1XeOn8)

Pros & Cons : 16:15

Cards

6:22 HTTP/2

10;50 Reverse Proxy / proxy

example 13:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp3Ku1XeOn8)

16:00 Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancer