Networking
Presentations
Building a High-Performance Networking Protocol for Microservices
As more and more applications are distributed, latency is becoming a critical factor in delivering a good user experience. Techniques used in Fintech and Adtech – such as zero copy, flyweights, composite buffers, pooled memory, shared memory transport, direct memory in languages like Java...
Past Presentations
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...
Next Gen Networking Infrastructure With Rust
As the world becomes ever more connected, the scale and sophistication of network infrastructure software is increasing dramatically. However, the requirements for this software are as stringent as ever: it must not only be fast, it must be safe, i.e. able to process untrusted data without...
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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