Smart proxying for microservices

Abstract

Proxies provide the networking infrastructure to the microservices architecture which has become ubiquitous in the cloud today. However, these proxies either cannot operate at line rate or are unsuitable for generic deployments. Furthermore, state-of-the-art autoscaling algorithms are still unable to account for quality of service the applications need to provide. In my dissertation I plan to explore a split proxy architecture that would be able to operate at line rate and provide autoscaling services that take into account QoS. Furthermore, such disaggregated L4/L7 processing provides a unique opportunity to embed DDoS mitigation like security features within the proxy framework.