Understanding a vital part of connecting Envoy Proxy to your applications — In modern environments, hosts don’t live for months or years. Cloud VMs may live for days, and Kubernetes pods may only live for minutes. Envoy’s dynamic configuration allows it to keep up-to-date on what infrastructure is available and healthy. Modern apps at any scale need a standardized approach for dealing…

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When serving any kind of traffic over the public internet, it’s best to secure it. When used as either a front proxy or a service mesh proxy, Envoy supports TLS and SSL to encrypt all communication between clients and the proxy. Today we’ll show how to set up Envoy as…

Bags are my thing. Well, bags and shoes. Traveling as much as I do, having a dependable, comfortable, and sleek bag is pretty important. For the past two or so years, I’ve depended on my Topo Designs Trip Pack for short trips, and then nested it inside of my Ryu…

A distributed approach to preventing cascading failures in a service mesh — In the world of microservices, services often make calls to other services. But what happens when a service is busy, or unable to respond to that call? How do you avoid a failure in one part of your infrastructure cascading into other parts of your infrastructure? …

A primer on Envoy routing compotents — This article discusses Envoy’s routing in more detail. You may have already seen how routing works on your laptop, but now you can see more of how routes, clusters, and listeners are configured with static files. Routing components Route—a set of rules that match virtual hosts to clusters and allow you to…

Traffic shifting and releases using the Envoy Proxy — This article was originally posted to learnenvoy.io. One of most common workflows for any microservice is releasing a new version. Thinking about releases as a traffic management problem — as opposed to an infrastructure update — opens up new tools for protecting users from bad releases. We’ll begin with the…

The debut short-story collection by Danny Ortberg — “Daughters are as good a thing as any…” begins The Merry Spinster by Danny Ortberg’s wild reimagining of the Little Mermaid that ends in such grim fashion as to make the reader nod solemnly and intone, “truly, these are the end of times.” And yet, what a romp of a…

Welcome to my talk on tackling trans and queer issues. This talk aims to give you practical advice on how to help trans and queer folks at your workplace, as well as how to advocate for us at the executive and interpersonal level. Whether you’re trans and queer, cis and…