Maintaining the massive success of Envoy (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Today we welcome Matt Klein into our Maintainer Spotlight. Matt is the creator of Envoy, born inside of Lyft. It’s an edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Envoy was unexpectedly popular, and completely changed the way Lyft considers what and how to open source. While Matt has had several opportunities to turn Envoy into a commercial open source company, he didn’t. In today’s conversation with Matt we learn why he choose a completely different path for the project.

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Featuring:

• Matt Klein – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• “4 years ago Envoy became OSS”
• Optimizing impact: why I will not start an Envoy platform company
• The (broken) economics of OSS
• #envoycon2020
• CNCF graduated project
• envoyproxy.io

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