Lyft
Past Presentations
Generating Unified APIs with Protobuf & gRPC
With today's commonplace polyglot architectures, taming service APIs can be challenging. At Lyft, gRPC enforces a common protocol and types to solidify communication between backend services. How can we bring this same consistency to RESTful services and frontends? In this talk, we will cover...
Lyft's Envoy: Embracing a Service Mesh
Over the past several years, facing considerable operational difficulties with its initial microservice deployment primarily rooted in networking and observability, Lyft migrated to a sophisticated service mesh powered by Envoy (https://www.envoyproxy.io/), a high-performance distributed proxy...
Large Scale Architectures Panel
Join Karen Casella of Netflix as she explores architectural issues with a panel of experts from some of the world's largest architectures.
Interviews
Lyft's Envoy: Embracing a Service Mesh
QCon: You created Envoy. How did you come up with the idea for Envoy?
Matt: I've been working on Internet-scale networking for the last 10 years at places like Amazon, Twitter, and Lyft. The migration of technology stacks from a single language stack to a more polyglot stack over the last five to seven years has made it clear that people are embracing more Microservices architectures. Embracing a stack...
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