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Oct 10, 2019 | William Morgan

Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon NA 2019

This year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in San Diego is chock full of Linkerd content, from talks to workshops to booths. Many of your friendly neighborhood Linkerd maintainers, contributors, and adopters will be there in person—if you’re attending, please come find us. We’d love to meet you face to face! Here’s a quick guide to all the Linkerd content that’s happening at the conference: Linkerd in Production Workshop On Monday, November 18 at 1:00pm, Linkerd core contributors Alex Leong and Charles Pretzer will be holding a hands-on Linkerd in Production Workshop.

Apr 23, 2019 | Kiersten Gaffney

Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon EU 2019

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU This year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in Barcelona is chock full of Linkerd content, from training to booths to the 10+ Linkerd talks! Many of your friendly neighborhood Linkerd maintainers, contributors, and adopters will be there in person – if you’re attending, please come find us. We’d love to meet you face to face! Here’s a quick guide to all the Linkerd content that’s happening at the conference:

Mar 14, 2019 | William Morgan

Welcome to the Linkerd party, Google Ventures!

Happy pi day! The past few months have been a high point for Linkerd. Momentum has never been stronger, with adopters and contributors flocking to the project every day. Many of the newest adopters tell us that they arrived at Linkerd for a simple reason—it was simpler, lighter, and faster than anything else they tried. Sometimes, Linkerd was the only thing that even worked. Turns out we weren’t the only ones who noticed this trend.

Oct 19, 2018 | William Morgan

The Linkerd Enthusiast’s Guide to Kubecon NA 2018

The Linkerd Enthusiast’s Guide to Kubecon Linkerd will be in full force at this year’s KubeCon + Cloud NativeCon NA in Seattle. This will be the biggest KubeCon + CloudNativeCon to date with more than 7,000 attendees and over 200 scheduled breakout sessions. We’ve listed a selection of talks involving Linkerd below. Linkerd maintainers will also be present at two special events: Alex Leong (core maintainer) will be giving a hands-on workshop on how to use Linkerd in production on Kubernetes.

May 21, 2018 | Jennifer Lankford

Cool! Buoyant is a Gartner Cool Vendor!

We’re happy to announce that Buoyant has been selected as a May 2018 Cool Vendor in Application Architecture, Infrastructure and Integration, by Gartner. As the world’s leading research and advisory company, Gartner gives business leaders objective insights to make well-informed decisions, including the selection of technology tools and trends. Every year, Gartner analysts recognize a small selection of vendors that they deem potentially transformational in their markets. We’re honored to be recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor.

May 14, 2018 | Jennifer Lankford

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2018: The Service Mesh in Production

Earlier this month over 4300 attendees from around the world convened in Copenhagen to advance their cloud native and Kubernetes know-how at Kubecon EU. Based on the show floor buzz, a lot of customer conversations, and the many presentations on stage, it’s evident that the service mesh is rapidly becoming a fundamental requirement for anyone running Kubernetes. That interest was nowhere more evident than at the Buoyant booth, where we had a steady flow of attendees sitting down for hands-on demos of both of our open source service mesh projects: Linkerd, the battle-tested, incubation project of the CNCF, and ultralight, zero-config service mesh for Kubernetes.

Dec 11, 2017 | George Miranda

Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 Roundup

It’s a wrap. We’ve reached the end of this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Austin, TX. What a week we had! The unofficial theme of the conference quickly became the service mesh with some speakers dubbing 2018 as, “The Year of the Service Mesh”. Want to learn more about Linkerd? Couldn’t make it to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon? We’re holding a special live Ask-Me-Anything event with Buoyant co-founders William Morgan and Oliver Gould.

Jul 11, 2017 | William Morgan

Buoyant and Benchmark

Today, Oliver and I are happy to announce that Buoyant has raised Series A financing from Benchmark Capital, with Peter Fenton joining the board of directors. (See full press release here) Over the past year, Linkerd adoption has far exceeded anything we had hoped for. The service mesh approach has taken hold everywhere we look, from startups like Monzo and BigCommerce to household names like AOL and PayPal, to a couple amazing use cases we can’t even talk about.

Jan 23, 2017 | William Morgan

Linkerd Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

*Cross-posted on the* Cloud Native Computing Foundation blog. Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Linkerd as its fifth hosted project, alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing and Fluentd. Linkerd is an open source, resilient service mesh for cloud-native applications. Created by Buoyant founders William Morgan and Oliver Gould in 2015, Linkerd builds upon Finagle, the scalable microservice library that powers companies like Twitter, Soundcloud, Pinterest and ING.

Dec 10, 2016 | Steve Jenson

Slow Cooker: Load testing for tough software

Linkerd, our service mesh for cloud-native applications, needs to handle very high volumes of production traffic over extended periods of time. In this post, we’ll describe the load testing strategies and tools we use to ensure Linkerd can meet this goal. We’ll review some of the problems we faced when trying to use popular load testers. Finally, we’ll introduce slow_cooker, an open source load tester written in Go, which is designed for long-running load tests and lifecycle issue identification.