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Introducing Conduit – open-source service mesh for Kubernetes

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Re: Introducing Conduit – open-source service mesh for Kubernetes

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post #8

They should have chosen name that doesn`t immediately make users want to uninstall it.

Why? Conduit seems as good a name as any for a project like this, if you ask me. Am I missing something here?

"Conduit" is often refered to "Conduit toolbar" [1], which was known as a malware.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduit_toolbar

Re: Introducing Conduit – open-source service mesh for Kubernetes

#13
post #9
post #5

At first glance, this looks like a direct competitor to Envoy[1]. I'm sure the documentation will improve as the product matures, but right now much is left to the imagination. Could you perhaps go in to more detail on the differences between the two? [1] https://www.envoyproxy.io/

Like Linkerd, Envoy is a proxy that can be used used to build a service mesh. Conduit is a service mesh that includes a proxy. So, yes, Conduit uses something that competes with Envoy ;) But I would not say that Conduit and Envoy are equivalent things.

A service mesh needs a data plane (e.g. Envoy) and a control plane (e.g. Istio). Conduit has both in one product.

Re: Introducing Conduit – open-source service mesh for Kubernetes

#18
post #14

But what in the hell is it? If your product is so revolutionary it defines a new market segment, you might want to bring the people with the money people up to speed.

It's an "open source service mesh." They're assuming you know what that is, and what their existing product (Linkerd) does in that space. I think that's reasonable for a blog post, and you can go look at their solid documentation if you don't.

Re: Introducing Conduit – open-source service mesh for Kubernetes

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> Conduit's Rust-based data plane proxies run in less than 10mb RSS and have sub-millisecond p99 latencies. I love seeing things move from Java/PHP/Ruby to Go (or better) Rust. Memory usage plummets.

It's becoming something we're increasingly hearing from production users. To some of them, low, stable memory usage is almost more important than some of Rust's other features.

Re: Introducing Conduit – open-source service mesh for Kubernetes

#20
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Conduit seems as good a name as any for a project like this, if you ask me. Am I missing something here?

"Conduit" is often refered to "Conduit toolbar" [1], which was known as a malware. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduit_toolbar

It’s been a long,’long time since I’ve seen it that I completely forgot, hah! Guess it’s not as bad as a name still then.
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