Envoy From the Inside Out: A Developer's Guide - Akshita Agarwal, Airbnb

Presenters Akshita Agarwal Source EnvoyCon NA 2025 Diving Deep into Envoy Proxy: A Developer’s Guide to Mastering Connections 🚀 Envoy Proxy. You’ve heard the name, you’ve seen it powering some of the biggest names in tech like Lyft, Google, and Airbnb. It’s the unsung hero processing millions of connections every single day. But what really makes it tick? Akshita Garwal, with three years of hands-on experience, is here to pull back the curtain and demystify Envoy’s intricate configuration and behavior. Get ready to understand how this powerhouse works, from the ground up! ...

November 11, 2025 · 8 min

Lightning Talk: Envoy @ Netflix - Kevin Baichoo, Netflix

Presenters Kevin Baichoo Source EnvoyCon NA 2025 Navigating the Envoy Labyrinth: Netflix’s Journey to Distributed System Mastery 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever found yourself staring at a complex microservices architecture, wondering how to connect all the dots while maintaining sanity and performance? Well, you’re not alone! Today, we’re diving deep into Netflix’s experience with Envoy, the powerful open-source edge and service proxy, and how they’ve wrangled it to manage their vast and dynamic ecosystem. Kevin Bichu, an Envoy maintainer and Netflix engineer, shared some invaluable insights at a recent conference, and we’re here to break it all down for you. ...

November 11, 2025 · 6 min

Lightning Talk: Rate Limiting With Quotas Is Hard - So We Didn't! - Will Betts & Jay Chauhan, Tesco

Presenters Will Betts Jay Chauhan Source EnvoyCon NA 2025 Beyond Quotas: How Tesco Mastered Dynamic Rate Limiting with Envoy 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt the sting of a rate limit kicking in when you least expect it, even when you know you’re not going overboard? Well, the brilliant minds at Tesco, the UK’s retail giant, have been wrestling with this very challenge. They’ve built a massive, distributed API gateway using Envoy and shared their journey from the complexities of quota-based rate limiting to a more dynamic, percentage-driven solution. Let’s dive into how they achieved this, making their API ecosystem robust and user-friendly! 👨‍💻 ...

November 11, 2025 · 5 min

Git Push, Sit Back: Level up AKS Deployments With Flux V2 - Dipti Pai, Microsoft

Presenters Dipti Pai Source FluxCon 2025 Get Push, Sit Back: Supercharging Your Deployments with Managed GitOps on Azure 🚀 Ever felt like managing Kubernetes deployments across multiple environments is a tangled mess of scripts, manual steps, and “oops, that didn’t work” moments? You’re not alone! The journey to true, scalable GitOps can be a bumpy one. But what if you could leverage the power of GitOps, make it incredibly robust, and manage it all from a single pane of glass, even across hybrid and multi-cloud setups? That’s exactly what Azure is enabling with its managed GitOps offering, built on the solid foundation of Flux CD! 🛠️ ...

November 11, 2025 · 6 min

Architecture Should Model the World as It Really Is: A Conversation with Randy Shoup

Presenters Michael Stiefel Randy Shoup Source InfoQ podcast From Failure to Fortitude: Architecting Resilient Software 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever feel like the path to robust software is paved with… well, failures? You’re not alone! In a recent deep dive on “The Architects Podcast,” seasoned architect Randy Shout shared invaluable insights on how we can transform those inevitable missteps into powerful building blocks for truly resilient systems. Forget just patching bugs; we’re talking about architecting for the long haul, and it all starts with understanding why things break. ...

November 10, 2025 · 7 min