Lyft Envoy. What’s That?

Envoy is an open-source cloud-native proxy focused on solving important distributed system pitfalls

Photo by Envoy on GitHub.

For quite a while, Lyft has been contributing some wonderful projects to the open-source community.

Envoy Proxy is one of their top-rated open-source products targeting issues that a lot of developers at companies like Microsoft, Netflix, SAP, VMware, and Uber are struggling to solve.

In September 2017, Envoy was donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Introduction

As of today, the modern way of building software systems is by leveraging a microservice architecture.

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“Microservices — also known as the microservice architecture — is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of services that are:

Highly maintainable and testable

Loosely coupled

Independently deployable

Organized around business capabilities

Owned by a small team

The microservice…