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Google: Three Tech Trends Shaping Dynamic Networks
Petr Chachin | 03/16/2020
Google Cloud VP and GM of Networking Shailesh Shukla discusses for ComputerWeekly how the shift to microservices architecture is driving a networking revolution.

are critical factors in a customer-centric world where one minute of downtime can have long-term consequences for a company’s brand reputation and bottom line. When customer service is paramount, a basic network infrastructure is essential to the success of any business. However, building and maintaining networks has never been more challenging.

Just five years ago, networks were collections of static (fixed) links. IT departments and network administrators back then focused on connecting systems to private data centers to manually brazil mobile database flowed between point A and point B. So network connections back then looked very different than they do now.

With the rise of ubiquitous smartphones and unprecedented expectations for speed and convenience, we’ve seen a sea of ​​changes in the way systems and applications are built. One of the biggest is that businesses across industries have begun to embrace microservices, breaking down monolithic applications into multiple, autonomous functions.

While microservices architectures are designed to be flexible, they also introduce new challenges. For an application to run smoothly, all of its microservices must communicate with each other in a secure, low-latency, and performant manner.

Because microservices are unlimited in number and connected by networking technologies, the scale and importance of the network has never been greater. Networking has become dynamic.

In turn, understanding and maintaining system performance has become a mammoth task that traditional IT solutions simply cannot handle. And hybrid and multi-cloud environments create even more heterogeneity and complexity, adding to the headache.