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Service Mesh Battle Scars: Technology, Timing, and Tradeoffs - Keith Mattix, Microsoft; John Howard, Google; Lin Sun, solo.io; Thomas Graf, Isovalent; Flynn, Buoyant
Tuesday November 7, 2023 5:25pm - 6:00pm CST
W176 (Ground Level)


It has been ~6 years since the first service meshes hit the market, and hundreds if not thousands of users are employing the technology in production today. As the space has matured and meshes are used at scale, many users are wondering about why certain constraints exist in their mesh of choice. Come hear maintainers of 3 CNCF service mesh projects discuss the very real tradeoffs they’re making everyday with topics ranging from eBPF, sidecarless, Rust proxies, multicluster, and user experience.
Speakers
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Thomas Graf

CTO & Co-Founder, Isovalent
Thomas is the Co-Founder and CTO of Isovalent, long-time kernel and eBPF developer, and one of the creators of the Cilium project. Before working on Cilium, Thomas was a Linux kernel developer for 15+ years focusing on networking, security, and eBPF. When not working on open source... Read More →
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Lin Sun

CNCF TOC member and Head of Open-Source at solo.io, solo.io
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical... Read More →
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John Howard

Staff Software Engineer, Google
John is a Software Engineer at Google working on Istio, and member of the Istio TOC and Steering committee.
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Keith Mattix

Senior Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft
Keith Mattix is an Engineering Lead at Microsoft focused on Istio, Gateway API, and other networking projects.
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Flynn -

Tech Evangelist, Buoyant
Flynn is a tech evangelist at Buoyant, educating developers about Linkerd, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development in general. He has spent 40 years in software engineering (from the kernel up through distributed applications, with a common thread of communications and security throughout... Read More →
Tuesday November 7, 2023 5:25pm - 6:00pm CST
W176 (Ground Level)
  Service Mesh
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