LinkerD with William Morgan

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) chats with William Morgan (@wm), CEO of Buoyant and a creator of the open source service mesh, LinkerD. As a former infrastructure engineer at Twitter, William leveraged his experience there to help develop what would become effectively the first service mesh. Listen to today’s episode to find out how the team at Buoyant originally coined the term, and are continuing to define the concept today.

In this episode we discuss:

Pioneering the very first service mesh
Why Buoyant rejected the open core model
How the industry is shifting away from the “nights and weekends” community
Rewriting LinkerD from scratch

Links:

LinkerD
Buoyant
Dive
Kubernetes
Docker
Finagle
HAProxy
NGINX
CNCF
Prometheus
Cisco Webex
Istio