gRPC and Kubernetes Load Balancing: Service Meshes Bridge the Configuration Gap for Seamless Integration
Introduction Integrating gRPC with Kubernetes’ native load balancing often results in...
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Introduction Integrating gRPC with Kubernetes’ native load balancing often results in...

Part 1 was about learning to read xDS. This time I flip to the producing side. I read cncf/xds (xdstp:// URIs, Authority, Dynamic Parameters, Resource Error, ORCA, Unified Matcher / CEL) as a control-plane designer would, as a set of design levers, and finish by actually building and serving resources with go-control-plane.
> - Cilium v1.19 (May 13, 2026) is the 10-year anniversary release and flips multiple defaults toward operational safety.
Microservices communicate over the network dozens or hundreds of times per second. Without mutual...
On May 18, 2026, the Istio community shipped **Istio 1.30.0** alongside backports 1.29.3 and 1.28.7. On the surface it's a regular quarterly release,
The Invoice — Episode 19 "mTLS, observability, traffic management, zero-code retries. You need a...
服务网格深度指南:微服务通信的可观测与安全基石 在云原生和微服务架构日益普及的今天,服务网格(Service...

Remember the first time you installed Istio? The pitch was beautiful. mTLS everywhere. Automatic...
Unlock robust monitoring and alerting with our step-by-step guide to integrating Cilium, Jaeger, cert-manager, Envoy, Grafana Tempo, and Mimir with Prometheus
Istio does not appear on your infrastructure budget as a line item. It appears as a gradual expansion...
Istio ServiceEntry Explained: External Services, DNS, and Traffic Control What Is...

xDS is the dynamic configuration protocol powering Istio and Envoy. How on earth does it stream configurations to thousands of proxies without restarts? From ACK/NACK and ADS to SotW vs Delta, we dive deep into the actual implementation.