Following the Path Welcome to part four of this series. This this final part, we will explore our options for networking a composed application, from a de-composed monolith or set of microservices.

Application De-Composition Applications are ever evolving and so are the architecture patterns:

Not Storing State in the Network OpenFlow (OF) adoption failed due to scalability of forwarding tables on ASICS, not so great controllers, lack of applications and a non-existent community.

This is part one of a series of posts on Application Composition within Network Service Meshes, otherwise known as Service Function Chaining, but at L7 and not L3/L4.