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“Platform engineering” tends to bring to mind an army of highly-technical people running around spending their every waking hour carefully tending to the platform. We get this sense that “the platform” is this highly-tuned, finicky, fragile thing just waiting to crash, that needs all these very serious people to keep it running.

In their presentation, Linkerd maintainer Matei David and Kong's Mike Beaumont explored the past, present, and future of sidecar containers in Kubernetes.

Identity lies at the core of every service mesh, so changing what “identity” means is always a challenging endeavor that mustn’t be taken lightly. Yet that’s exactly what the Linkerd project had to do to support extending the mesh beyond Kubernetes.

Everyone working in cloud native has figured out that in the microservices world, self-service is key to developing at scale. This is the whole point of the internal developer platform: give developers what they need for fast, low-friction, self-service development. Make the golden path easy.

During this KubeCon talk, Flynn discusses how Go and Kubernetes have been all but inseparable over the last few years — a monoculture approach that has brought tremendous benefits to the cloud-native ecosystem

In this KubeCon talk, Matei dives into why Rust is a great language for Kubernetes controllers. While Linkerd has been using Rust for its data plane proxies since the release of Linkerd 2 in 2018, most of the Linkerd control plane was still written in Go.