Join Matt Klein, creator of Envoy, as he discusses the origins and evolution of the popular open-source proxy. Learn about the challenges of transitioning to microservices, Envoy's unique features, and its success in the cloud space. Explore the complexities of creating a standardized interface for service meshes and the revolutionizing observability at BitDrift.
Envoy is widely used as a proxy beyond service mesh, offering rich observability and extensibility.
Envoy Mobile brings Envoy's networking capabilities to mobile devices, enhancing networking for mobile applications.
BitDrift's Capture optimizes telemetry storage to address observability challenges, offering cost efficiency and relevant data availability.
Deep dives
Envoy as a Popular Proxy in Service Mesh and Other Use Cases
Envoy, created and maintained by Matt Kline, has become one of the most popular proxies in the service mesh domain and is increasingly used beyond service mesh contexts. Initially designed for service mesh deployments, Envoy has found wide application as an edge proxy and API gateway. Its success is attributed to features like rich observability, a powerful API, and extensibility.
Envoy Mobile - Extending Envoy to Mobile Platforms
Envoy Mobile takes the core functionality of Envoy and adapts it to run on mobile devices as a networking library. Aimed at replicating the advanced networking capabilities of Envoy on mobile platforms, Envoy Mobile is a library that gets integrated into mobile applications, offering robust networking capabilities for efficient communications.
Misaligned Incentives in Observability Space and BitDrift's Approach
BitDrift, founded by Matt Kline, is addressing the misaligned incentives in the observability space. Traditional observability vendors charge based on data volume, leading to high costs for users and limited value. BitDrift's product, Capture, offers a new approach with a control plane that optimizes telemetry data storage on mobile devices, ensuring cost efficiency and relevant data availability for effective troubleshooting.
Discussion on Programming Languages: Rust vs. Go
Matt Kline expresses a preference for Rust over Go, citing reasons such as better memory safety and productive coding in Rust as compared to Go. Rust's compiler catches potential bugs, leading to enhanced code quality, while the extensive capabilities of Go sometimes lead to issues like data races and memory leaks.
Insights on Service Mesh Interface (SMI) and Standardization Efforts
Matt Kline provides insights into the challenges of standardizing interfaces like SMI in the service mesh domain. He highlights the difficulties in creating a common API that satisfies varying vendor feature sets and usage needs. Such standardization efforts often meet hurdles due to the complex requirements across different implementations, making a truly vendor-agnostic approach challenging.
Matt Klein is the CTO of bitdrift which is building a Mobile observability platform. Matt is known for being the creator of Envoy, one of the most popular open source proxies in the cloud space.
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