If you followed service mesh content at this year’s KubeCon and expected the service mesh panel to focus on Linkerd only to find out that you were wrong, you could be forgiven. After all, KubeCon is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation event and Linkerd is a CNCF project.
Linkerd was also the first service mesh, created by Oliver Gould and William Morgan and based on work they did at Twitter in the first half of last decade. The term “service mesh” originated from the project. (Gould and Morgan are now co-founders of Buoyant, a San Francisco-based Linkerd-focused startup.)