DeveloperWeek 2020

StackPath has a large, globally distributed computing platform called “Edge Compute.” Monitoring it is a challenge, so StackPath wrote a containerized microservice called “Scouter” to deploy everywhere across the platform, andput together a full monitoring stack, including a time-series database (Influx)and a visual dashboard (Grafana). The full Scouter project has been open-sourced to give back to the community. This workshop will heavily utilize theStackPath API to show how to deploy microservices, either globally or in limited regions by building and deploying Scouter in real time. It will demonstrate the ability to deploy an anycast IP address, again either globallyor in limited regions, and show how this allows the network layer to automatically route to the geographically-closest Point-of-Presence (POP) a given container is deployed to.