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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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2022
Containers
Trailblazers Award
2024 and 2021
Digital Innovator Award
2021 and 2023
Tracxn Emerging Startups of IT Operations
2021
Tech Ascension Awards
2020
IDC Innovators: Service Mesh
2018
IDC Innovators: Service Mesh
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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