Envoy Proxy with Matt Klein

Full show notes and transcript.

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Matt Klein (@mattklein123) discuss the beginnings of Envoy Proxy, an open source proxy now governed by the CNCF. Matt is a software engineer at Lyft and creator of the Envoy. On today’s episode, Matt gives the inside scoop on the benefits and challenges of cultivating a self-sustaining open source community.  

In this episode we discuss:

How Matt’s experience at Twitter informed development of Envoy
Working with Google
The role of marketing in Envoy’s success
Why building an open source community is like “total controlled anarchy”
Finding the right contributors and maintainers

Links:

Envoy Proxy
Finagle
Hystrix
NginX
HA Proxy
Istio
CNCF