customer stories… US Retail 2600 Stores • COVID preventeded in-store visitors • Mobile app orders skyrocketed (more API calls) • Need more flexible API-GW (cloud, scale, innovation) • New customer engagement model (digital) • Completely retro-fitted all their stores US Retail 300,000 Shipt Shoppers • Acquired by Target (Fortune #32, in 2017) • Enables new business insights for Target • Compete vs. Amazon Prime (deliveries) • Need to build new services faster • Need more flexible API-GW and Service Mesh
Application Networking Well Funded ($175M) & Growing Satisfied Customers (130% Renewals) Cloud-native Technology Leadership Cloud-native Education Leadership TODAY’S BUSINESS DIGITAL BUSINESS The Service Mesh and API Platform for Kubernetes | Zero-Trust | Microservices
most market leading, most profitable, and most innovative companies build and manage software better than their competitors. Digital Transformation Application Modernization Zero-Trust Security Reduce Costs
Continuing Maturity of Kubernetes Deployments Adoption and Evolution of Platform Engineering Standardization and Simplification of Service Mesh Merging Together of Service Mesh and API management
Too Little Time Massive Confusion Too many independent solutions emerged in the landscape Wild west nature of open source became evident Explosion of projects made it difficult to know where to invest energy DIY nature of cloud-native solutions becomes limit to adoption for many