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Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Matt Klein (@mattklein123) discuss the beginnings of Envoy Proxy, an open source proxy now governed by the CNCF. Matt is a software engineer at Lyft and creator of the Envoy. On today’s episode, Matt gives the inside scoop on the benefits and challenges of cultivating a self-sustaining open source community.  

In this episode we discuss:

• How Matt’s experience at Twitter informed development of Envoy
• Working with Google
• The role of marketing in Envoy’s success
• Why building an open source community is like “total controlled anarchy”
• Finding the right contributors and maintainers

Links:

• Envoy Proxy
• Finagle
• Hystrix
• NginX
• HA Proxy
• Istio
• CNCF