Christian Posta (@christianposta) is Global Field CTO at Solo.io, and well known in the cloud-native community for being an author (Istio in Action, Manning, Microservices for Java Developers, O’Reilly 2016), blogger, speaker, open-source enthusiast and contributor to various open-source projects in the service mesh and cloud-native ecosystem. Christian has spent time at both enterprises as well as web-scale companies and now helps companies create and deploy large-scale, cloud-native, resilient, distributed architectures. He enjoys mentoring, training and leading teams to be successful with distributed systems concepts, microservices, devops, and cloud-native application design.