.tech podcast by Form3

Ep3 .tech: Power of Linkerd Service Mesh with William Morgan

Episode Summary

In this episode of the .tech podcast our host Kevin Holditch is joined by William Morgan, the CEO of Buoyant. Buoyant are the creators of Linkerd, not only the worlds lightest, fastest service mesh but software utilised by Form3 as one of the first adopters. Join Kevin and William as they talk about the journey of Linkerd from creation (Linkered 1) to the newest version (Linkered 2).

Episode Notes

Our new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.

Topics/questions covered in this episode:

• How did Will start Linkerd?
• Linkerd and the  intrinsic value of a service mesh
• The benefits of changes at a platform level with Linkerd
• Form3's transition to Kubernetes
• Becoming cloud agnostic
• What to think about when choosing which service mesh to use
• Rust, Garbage collection and Tail latency.
• Containerization
• Linkerd 2 and mutual TLS.
• Multi region with Linkerd
• Telemetry  and Monitoring on Linkerd

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