On the topic of "the state of tracing", we JUST added tracing support to Linkerd. As someone with no real horse in the DT race, but with a desire to actually provide a concrete solution to our users,

I was a reviewer for both China and North America this year, and a double-blind academia reviewer earlier in life. I sent some feedback to the program committee which mostly echoed Brian's blog post:

+1 (non-binding). Great project. -William

Yes. Great suggestion. With the current model we aimed for the simplest, most basic structure that still captured what we thought was important (some maintainers are experts in a subsystem; some maint

Whoops, thanks for pointing that out. I count 3 PRs out of the last 18 or so that violated the governance rules about requiring a super-maintainer review, all minor. We're still adjusting to some of t

Most that we're aware of run Linkerd per host. There are a couple companies that use it as a sidecar, and don't Linkerd's resource requirements heavyweight relative to the existing footprint of their

Yes. I can't speak for the other community folks, but Buoyant is planning its Q2 Linkerd roadmap right now. Dark traffic, rate limiting, backup requests, configurable communication policy in namerd, a

Thanks! And those are just the public ones. :) Re: code percentages. This is a side-effect of where the project started, but we definitely want to diversify and I expect that it will happen naturally

FWIW that article is not 100% correct. Linkerd ships with a control plane (Namerd). This is how these companies are controlling routing policy across Linkerd instances. -William

+1 (non-binding)

+1 (non-binding) -William

Thank you! And thank you very much for your support and help along the way. -William

We have HTTP/2 in alpha. Gory details here: https://github.com/BuoyantIO/linkerd/issues/174 Performance: a heady topic. That post is still accurate. Note that it's focused on a sidecar / low-mem confi

(adding Oliver, linkerd's maintainer) Hi Brian, Good point about Amalgam8, I should have mentioned them. Also maybe Netflix's Prana? In my mind Traefik, Vulcand, etc. are largely targeted at ingress /