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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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? …

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 …

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 …

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 …