Oliver Gould, Co-founder and CTO of Buoyant, shares insights from his journey in tech, including his time at Twitter and Yahoo. He explains the concept of a service mesh and its components: the data plane and control plane. Gould highlights the benefits of Linkerd and Conduit, particularly Conduit's low memory footprint and ease of deployment. He discusses the shift to Rust, the importance of reading code for learning, and the challenges surrounding the adoption of service meshes in microservices environments, enhancing efficiency and security in the process.
