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Lyft's Envoy: Embracing a Service Mesh
Summary
Matt Klein explains why Lyft developed Envoy, focusing primarily on the operational agility that the burgeoning service mesh paradigm provides, with a particular focus on microservice networking observability.
Bio
Matt Klein is a software engineer at Lyft and the creator of Envoy. He has been working on operating systems, virtualization, distributed systems, networking, and making systems easy to operate for more than 15 years across a variety of companies. Some highlights include leading the development of Twitter’s L7 edge proxy and working on high-performance computing and networking in Amazon’s EC2.
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