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Landing the Istio Job
- Mitch Connors' interest in Kubernetes and Istio stemmed from listening to the Kubernetes Podcast.
- He then strategically secured a position on the Istio team through a Google interview.
Visualizing Merkle Trees
- Visualizing data structures like Merkle trees is crucial for understanding them.
- Mitch Connors built a visualization tool when implementing a Merkle tree.
Istio's Use of Merkle Trees
- Merkle trees were employed in Istio to manage config distribution and track resource versions across numerous Envoy proxies.
- The implementation, however, still contains some lurking bugs.