Christian Posta (@christianposta) is VP, Global Field CTO at Solo.io. He is well known in the cloud-native community for being an author (Istio in Action, Microservices for Java Developers), blogger, speaker, and open-source 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.