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Founded in 2015 by Twitter infrastructure engineers William Morgan and Oliver Gould, Buoyant pioneered the service mesh category with Linkerd, the lightest, fastest, and most secure service mesh on the planet. Today, Linkerd powers the critical production infrastructure for leading organizations around the world, and Buoyant continues to spearhead security and simplicity for Kubernetes platforms everywhere.

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We had the Linkerd multi-cluster up and running within an hour! After a few days of struggling with Istio, we gave up on it. Linkerd did the job fast and easily — the perfect mesh for us. It had all the features we needed at the time, was easy to operate, had a great community, and solid documentation.

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We had the Linkerd multi-cluster up and running within an hour! After a few days of struggling with Istio, we gave up on it. Linkerd did the job fast and easily — the perfect mesh for us. It had all the features we needed at the time, was easy to operate, had a great community, and solid documentation.

Chris Voss

Lead Platform Architect

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We had the Linkerd multi-cluster up and running within an hour! After a few days of struggling with Istio, we gave up on it. Linkerd did the job fast and easily — the perfect mesh for us. It had all the features we needed at the time, was easy to operate, had a great community, and solid documentation.

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Lead Platform Architect

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Unlike other service mesh offerings that crowd half baked features into the mix, or over-complicated topology choices, Linkerd follows the Unix model of doing one thing well, in a composable way. Lachlan Smith, Lead Software Engineer

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