Magnus Larsson, an IT industry veteran since 1986, has consulted for major Swedish firms like Volvo, Ericsson, and AstraZeneca. In the past, he struggled with the challenges associated with distributed systems. Today, these challenges can be handled with open-source tools such as Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, and Istio. For the past eight years, Magnus has been helping customers use these tools and shared insights through presentations and blog posts.