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Oct 4, 2026Linkerd in Production: 18 Months, 220 Services, Zero Mesh-Wide Outages
Linkerd in Production: 18 Months, 220 Services, Zero Mesh-Wide Outages We replaced Istio...
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Jul 28, 2026Linkerd federation keeps the app running when a whole Kubernetes cluster dies
A CNCF walk-through by Dominik Táskai wires three GKE clusters into a full-mesh Linkerd multicluster and kills one. The nine-pod frontend rebalances across the surviving six with no application changes, but the setup pays a real price at the VPC, node-count and controller layers.
Jul 28, 20263 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Jul 19, 2026Implementing mTLS in Kubernetes: How to Secure Service-to-Service Communication
Introduction In a microservices architecture running on Kubernetes, services communicate...
Jul 19, 20269 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Jul 9, 2026[EN] Why You Shouldn't Put Kafka Traffic in Your Service Mesh
In 2020, I gave a talk about Linkerd at DevOpsDays São Paulo. One of the recommendations in the...
Jul 9, 20265 min read2 reactions1 comments
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May 6, 2026Architecture Teardown: Istio 1.26 vs. Linkerd 3.2 Sidecar Injection for 2026 Zero-Trust Clusters
In 2026, 78% of Kubernetes production clusters enforce zero-trust networking policies, yet 62% of...
May 6, 202615 min read0 reactions0 comments
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May 4, 2026Contrarian Take: Linkerd 2.15 Is Better Than Istio 1.22 for Service Mesh Newbies
In 2024, 72% of engineering teams adopting their first service mesh abandon the project within 6...
May 4, 202612 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Apr 29, 2026Internals: How Linkerd 2.15 Sidecar Uses eBPF for Low-Overhead Service Mesh Metrics
Service mesh metrics have long carried a 30-40% latency tax for sidecar proxies—Linkerd 2.15’s eBPF...
Apr 29, 202615 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Apr 29, 2026Deep Dive: How Linkerd 2.16's and Istio 1.23's Sidecar Proxies Optimize Latency for 2026 K8s Services
In 2025, 68% of Kubernetes production outages traced to service mesh sidecar latency overhead—Linkerd...
Apr 29, 202617 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Apr 29, 2026How to Set Up Service Mesh with Linkerd 2.14 and Kubernetes 1.32
\n After 15 years of debugging distributed systems, I’ve seen 72% of service mesh implementations...
Apr 29, 202615 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Apr 28, 2026Performance Test: Istio 1.23 vs. Linkerd 2.15 Service Mesh Latency for 2026 Microservices on K8s 1.32
In 2026, 78% of Kubernetes production workloads use a service mesh, but 42% of teams report latency...
Apr 28, 202612 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Apr 28, 2026Benchmark: Linkerd 2.14 vs. Istio 1.23: Sidecar Proxy Memory Usage 2026
In 2026, the average Kubernetes cluster runs 147 sidecar proxies per node—and memory bloat is the #1...
Apr 28, 202614 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Apr 28, 2026Contrarian View: Linkerd 2.14 Is Better Than Istio 1.22 for Small Kubernetes 1.32 Clusters – 12% Less Overhead
\n If you’re running a small Kubernetes 1.32 cluster with fewer than 50 nodes and 200 pods, the...
Apr 28, 202613 min read0 reactions0 comments