Tunning
My real-life Istio Performance Tuning - Part 1
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Why tuning

If it takes interest and momentum to push a new technology, then what is needed to get this technology go to live production is hard working. Including Cloud Native and Istio.
In pre-launch performance testing, Istio out-of-box provided observability, operational convenience, and also introduced pain: Increased service latency. How to minimize latency has become a critical task.

My Scenario:

  • SERVICE-A invoke SERVICE-B
  • Latency of Service-A, which was previously 9ms at P50, is now 14ms at P50.

Bottleneck Analysis

There are two paths under my feet: