title: The Cloud Service Evaluation Handbook: How to Choose the Right Service
author: Scott Feuless
description: Scott Feuless is a single father of two living in Pearland, Texas and is one of the worlds foremost experts on the measurement and evaluation of cloud services. Thus far there has only been one major effort to create a standard for measurement and evaluation of cloud services targeted at service buyer organizations. This was the Cloud Services Measurement Initiative Consortium (CSMIC), and Scott was the primary author of the metrics for that standard. Though the consortium eventually dissolved before the standard could be completed, he has leveraged his experience to build a new, complete, user-friendly metrics framework, complete with the templates and guidance required to put it to use in real-world decision-making. Organizations making business-critical cloud sourcing decisions can now rest assured that their decisions are leveraging reliable, comprehensive metrics and leading practices. As cloud services rapidly become more critical to organizations across the world, reliable metrics are key to optimizing the benefits those services will deliver. Scott currently sits on the Cloud Metrics Subgroup of the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture Working Group and occasionally blogs on cloud computing topics. He spent 15 years at ISG, the worlds leading sourcing advisory firm, where he advised many of the worlds largest organizations on cloud service adoption, sourcing, benchmarking and performance improvement. During this time Scott was ISGs leading expert on cloud service measurement, inventing key tools for cloud service evaluation and cloud service pricing analytics. His extensive work with sophisticated benchmarking models, combined with input from clients beginning their journey into cloud computing, gave him just the background he needed to design effective, usable metrics for evaluating cloud services. Scotts work with cloud computing began in 1999 when he helped transform a small Value Added Reseller into a publicly traded startup Application Service Provider (ASP) named ebaseOne. As the firms Chief Technology Officer, he managed the business plan, hired the technical staff, developed customer agreements, worked with initial customers to design the services and much more. That ASP model is now more commonly known as Software as a Service (SaaS), one of the most popular forms of cloud computing.
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  A Service Mesh 
  for Kubernetes
  Using Linkerd to add Reliability, 
  Security and Performance to your 
  Kubernetes Application 
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  I. Introduction 
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  What is a service mesh?  
  Is the service mesh a networking model?  
  What does a service mesh actually do?  
  Why is the service mesh necessary?
  1. Top-line service metrics 
  2. Encrypting all the things 
  3. Continuous deployment via traffic shifting 
  4. Dogfood, ingress & edge routing 
  5. Staging microservices without the tears 
  6. Distributed tracing made easy 
  7.  Linkerd as an ingress controller  
  8. gRPC for fun and proﬁt 
  II. A Service 
  Mesh for 
  Kubernetes 
  Page 8
  III. Conclusion 
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  The future of the service mesh
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  Introduction 
  Over the past year, the service mesh has emerged as a critical component of the 
  cloud native stack. High-traﬃc companies like PayPal, Lyft, Ticketmaster and Credit 
  Karma have all added a service mesh to their production applications, t