Linkerd, with Thomas Rampelberg

Thomas Rampelberg is a software engineer with Buoyant, creators of Linkerd, and a core maintainer of that project. He is also a co-author of the Service Mesh Interface and co-creator of DC/OS. He joins Craig and Adam to talk about the two former, and pour one out for the latter.

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Chatter of the week

• The BBC on Sean Connery
• Noreen Malone on Alex Trebek
• Celebrity Jeopardy! highlights from Saturday Night Live
• Doomscrolling
• Potion Explosion: analog, or digital (Steam, Android, iOS)
• KerPlunk!: analog only

News of the week

• Linkerd 2.9
• AWS's response to Dockerhub: a new service
• IBM adds Code Risk Analysis to Cloud CD
• Helm chart deprecation
  • Episode 11, with Vic Iglesias
• CyberArk looks at threats to Kubernetes

Links from the interview

• D2iQ retires DC/OS
  • Kubernetes on Mesos in 2015
• The monolith
• Buoyant
• Linkerd
• Finagle
• kube-proxy before iptables
• Conduit: a new mesh without the JVM, which became Linkerd 2
• Linkerd 2-proxy:
  • Under the hood of the Linkerd proxy
  • Rust
  • tokio runtnime and hyper HTTP libraries
  • Heartbleed
  • CNCF audit
• Architecting for Multicluster Kubernetes blog post
• Linkerd 2.9
  • Service Topology
  • Gas station bathrooms
• Service Mesh Interface (SMI)
  • NGINX Service Mesh
  • Flagger
  • Kiali
  • Spec
• Istio WebAssembly support
• Kubernetes is a domain-specific database
• Tilt and Okteto
• Burning Man
• Thomas Rampelberg on Twitter