Flynn is a technology evangelist at Buoyant, working on spreading the good word about Linkerd - the graduated CNCF service mesh that makes the fundamental tools for software security and reliability freely available to every engineer - and about Kubernetes and cloud-native development in general. Flynn is also the original author and a maintainer of the Emissary-ingress API gateway, also a CNCF project.
Sidecars or Sharing: A Practical Guide to Selecting Your Service Mesh
Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a lot of confusion about “sidecars or sidecarless” in the context of service meshes. This architectural choice turns out to be very important – ...
The Hidden Costs of Cloud-Native Open Source
Optimal open source use in the cloud-native stack means planning for the tradeoff expenses that can crop up ...
Zero-Trust Kubernetes and the Service Mesh
If you’re doing security in Kubernetes, chances are good that you’ve at least heard of zero-trust. You’ve probably been asked to deploy it or at least to think about how to deploy ...
