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DoorDash Uses Envoy and Valkey for a 1.5M RPS Proxy Cache with 99.99999% Availability
DoorDash has developed Entity Cache, a transparent proxy caching platform built on Envoy and Valkey to reduce redundant service-to-service requests across its microservices architecture. Operating within DoorDash’s service mesh, the platform serves over 1.5M requests per second with 99.99999% availability through caching, event-driven invalidation, failure handling, and performance optimizations.
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Linkerd 2.20 Delivers Smarter Traffic Management and Dramatic Efficiency Gains
The Linkerd community has announced the release of Linkerd 2.20, introducing a series of performance, observability, and traffic management enhancements that further strengthen the CNCF-graduated service mesh's position as a lightweight alternative for Kubernetes networking.
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Buoyant Announces MCP Support for Linkerd, Extending Service Mesh Capabilities to Agentic AI Traffic
Buoyant, the company behind the open-source Linkerd service mesh, announced that Linkerd now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), making it the first service mesh to natively manage, secure, and observe agentic AI traffic in Kubernetes environments.
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Imagine Learning Highlights Linkerd’s Role in Cloud-Native Scale and Cost Savings
Innovative education technology provider Imagine Learning relies on Linkerd as the backbone of its cloud-native infrastructure, enabling rapid growth and ensuring reliability, scalability, and security. With over 80% reduction in compute needs and a 40% cut in networking costs, Linkerd offers a proven solution that enhances efficiency across diverse sectors.
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Airbnb Executes Istio Upgrades at Massive Scale
Airbnb engineering has published a detailed account of how it maintains high availability during Istio upgrades across tens of thousands of pods and thousands of VMs, all without downtime.
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QCon London 2025: Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required
In an engaging talk at QCon London 2025, Louis Ryan, CTO of Solo.io and co-creator of Istio, addressed the complexities of hybrid cloud-native networking. He emphasized intentional assembly of network components, critical evaluation of tools, and treating networking as a primary focus to ensure reliability, observability, and security in today's intricate enterprise environments.
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HashiCorp Releases Consul 1.19 with Enhanced Kubernetes and Nomad Integration
HashiCorp has announced the general availability of Consul 1.19, introducing several improvements to its service networking platform. The latest version focuses on enhancing user experience, providing greater flexibility, and strengthening integration capabilities.
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DoorDash Uses Service Mesh and Cell-Based Architecture to Significantly Reduce Data Transfer Costs
In a recent move, DoorDash has significantly optimized its cloud infrastructure costs. The company faced increased cross-AZ data transfer costs when transitioning to a microservices architecture. To substantially reduce this cost, DoorDash implemented zone-aware routing with its Envoy-based service mesh, taking advantage of its Cell-Based Architecture.
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Linkerd 2.14 Improves Support on Flat Networks and Gateway API Conformance
Version 2.14 of Linkerd, a service mesh and graduated CNCF project, has been released, with improved enterprise multi-cluster support, full Kubernetes Gateway API conformance, and many other changes.
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Implementation of Zero-Configuration Service Mesh at Netflix
In a recent blog post, Netflix described why they engaged the Envoy community and Kinvolk to implement a new feature for Envoy, the open-source proxy developed by Lyft. This new feature called On-Demand Cluster Discovery helped Netflix to implement a zero-configuration service mesh.
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Consul 1.16 Released with Reliability, UX and Security Improvements
Consul 1.16 - the latest version of Hashicorp's service mesh tool - has been released. This release contains many enhancements that improve service mesh reliability, user experience, and security.
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HashiCorp Consul Improves Envoy Integration, Adds Debugging Tool
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.15, adding new features that improve interacting with Envoy and troubleshooting issues within the service mesh platform. The release introduces improvements to Envoy access logging as well as adding in Consul Envoy extensions. To improve the troubleshooting experience, a new service-to-service troubleshooting tool has been added.
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Service Mesh Kuma Improves Policy Handling and Debugging Experience
Kuma, a service mesh technology, released version 2.1 with improved policies and an updated UI. The improved policies build upon the 2.0 release and move the remaining policies over to the new targetRef system. The targetRef system provides an improved matching system for defining policies.
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HashiCorp Consul Introduces New Sidecar Model for Kubernetes Deployments
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.14, adding new features that simplify deployments and improve the resiliency of their service mesh platform. The release includes Consul Dataplane, an improved architecture for deploying onto Kubernetes. The cluster peering model that was introduced as beta in 1.13 has been moved into full general availability.
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HashiCorp Consul on Amazon ECS Adds Development Kit and Support for High Traffic Loads
HashiCorp has announced the release of version 0.3 of their Consul on Amazon ECS service. The release includes support for additional configuration options, deployment without Terraform, and confirmed support for high traffic loads. They have also released, in partnership with AWS, a AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to support using Consul on Amazon ECS.