Service Mesh: case studies over time¶

34 case studies across 19 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "service mesh"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Airbnb, Booking.com, Buoyant, Cash App, Decathlon, DoorDash, EarnIn, Fault, Form3, Fred..., IBM, Intuit, Layer5, Lyft, New York Times, Niantic, Northwestern Mutual, Salesforce, Skyscanner, SolarWinds, Spotify, The Weather Company, VMware, What

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 (Austin)¶

Using Custom Resources to Provide Cloud Native API Management - Frank B Greco Jr — Northwestern Mutual¶

Northwestern Mutual presents Kanali, its open source Kubernetes-native API gateway built on custom resources, with a demo of how it manages APIs.

▶ 7:57 … a gateway and a service mesh so a lot of you have probably want to talks about a service mash talks so SCO envoi …
▶ 9:26 service mesh and make our clusters a lot more lightweight and just have the gateway model alright so I mentioned Canali is lightweight and …
▶ 24:45 … Canali is not a service smash it is an api gateway and so because it's not a service mesh it does separate itself …
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2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai)¶

Experiences From Running Istio in a K8s Production Environment - Line Moseng & Johnny Horvi ¶

Speakers share their experiences running Istio in a Kubernetes production environment.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 (Copenhagen)¶

Introducing Envoy-Based Service Mesh at Booking.com - Ivan Kruglov, Booking.com — Booking.com¶

Evolving Systems Design: From Unreliable rpc to Resilience with Linkerd - Edward Wilde, Form3 — Form3¶

Form3 describes how its systems design evolved from unreliable RPC to resilience using Linkerd.

Istio - The Weather Company's Journey - Nick Nellis & Fabio Oliveira, IBM (Any Skill Level) — The Weather Company, IBM¶

The Weather Company (IBM) shares its journey adopting Istio service mesh in production.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)¶

Don’t Forget the Data When Embarking on Your Journey to Service Meshes - Shriram Rajagopalan, VMware — VMware¶

Instrumenting and Scaling Cloud-Native Databases with Envoy - Daniel Hochman, Lyft — Lyft¶

Lyft shows how it uses Envoy to instrument and scale its cloud-native databases.

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona)¶

Service Meshes: At What Cost? - Lee Calcote, Layer5 & Girish Ranganathan, SolarWinds — What, Layer5, SolarWinds¶

5 Simple Steps To Simplifying Your Compliance Journey With a Service Mesh – Granville Schmidt ¶

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 (San Diego)¶

Envoy on Fire: A Practical Look at Debugging a Service Mesh - Lita Cho & Ryan Cox, Lyft — Lyft¶

Lyft shares how it debugs Envoy and its service mesh in production.

From Brownfield to Greenfield: Istio Service Mesh Journey at Fred... Shriram Rajagopalan & Lixun Qi — Fred...¶

There's a Bug in My Service Mesh! What Do You Do When the Mesh is At Fault? - Ana Calin & Risha Mars — Fault¶

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual¶

Multi-cluster Made Reasonable: Envoy Service Mesh Control Plane - Ashley Kasim & Paul Fisher, Lyft — Lyft¶

Lyft describes the Envoy-based control plane it built to run its service mesh across multiple clusters.

Migrating Transactions Worth Billions of $ to Service Mesh With N... Mahendra Kariya & Shishir Joshi ¶

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2021¶

Online Video upgrades resilience from SC Circuit Breaker to Service Mesh - Xu Shiyu & Zhang Chaomeng ¶

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021¶

Operationalizing Kubernetes Sidecars in Production at Salesforce - Mayank Kumar, Salesforce — Salesforce¶

Salesforce shares how it operates Kubernetes sidecars in production and the lessons learned.

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021¶

Building a Multi Cluster/Env Service Mesh at Airbnb - Weibo He & Stephen Chan, Airbnb — Airbnb¶

Airbnb describes how it built its multi-cluster, multi-environment service mesh.

Migrating to Service Mesh at Scale to Support Billions of $ Transactions - Imre Nagi & Giri Kuncoro ¶

Context Aware Traffic Routing for Stateful Services using Envoy - Renana Yacobi & Piaw Na, Niantic — Niantic¶

Niantic describes using Envoy for context-aware traffic routing of its stateful services.

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022¶

Automated Progressive Delivery Using GitOps and Service Mesh - Yasen Simeonov & Henrik Blixt, Intuit — Intuit¶

Intuit shows how it automates progressive delivery with GitOps and a service mesh.

Service Mesh at Scale: How Xbox Cloud Gaming Secures 22k Pods with Linkerd - Christopher Voss ¶

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023¶

Multi-Cluster Observability with Service Mesh - That Is a Lot of Moving Parts!? - Ryota Sawada ¶

The speaker shares their experience operating multi-cluster observability across a service mesh and the complexity involved.

Operate Multi-Tenancy Service Mesh with ArgoCD in Production - Lin Sun & Faseela K ¶

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023¶

Service Mesh Journey at DoorDash: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Hochuen Wong, DoorDash — DoorDash¶

Cilium: From Service Mesh to Kubernetes and... James McShane, Hemanth Malla, Liz Rice & Thomas Graf ¶

Five Years of Cloud Native Rust - Alex Leong, Buoyant — Buoyant¶

Buoyant reflects on five years of building the Linkerd data plane in Rust and the lessons learned.

Real-World Knative: Success Stories from Production Environments...¶

Four guest speakers describe how their organizations use Knative in production.

▶ 7:17 … secured um so the goal in essence is creating a big magic event mesh as a software as a service that we can deploy
▶ 19:42 … that we actually don't have a big use case for service mesh elsewhere um so we had to learnto when we started looking …
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2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024¶

Assessing Service Mesh's Net Worth: A Pragmatic Onboarding - Adrien Gillard, Decathlon — Decathlon¶

Decathlon assesses the value of a service mesh and describes its pragmatic onboarding approach.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024¶

From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: EarnIn's Network Evolution with Link... K. Trivedi & S. Chakraborty — EarnIn¶

EarnIn recounts how its network evolved by adopting Linkerd.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City¶

Cash App's Journey Into a Multi-Cluster Ecosystem - Rachel Sheikh, Cash App — Cash App¶

Cash App shares its journey to a multi-cluster Kubernetes ecosystem.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 - London¶

How We Moved Spotify To a Proxyless gRPC Service Mesh - Erik Lindblad & Erica Manno, Spotify — Spotify¶

Spotify explains how it migrated to a proxyless gRPC service mesh.

Journey at the New York Times: Is Sidecar-Less Service Mesh Disappearing I... Lin Sun & Ahmed Bebars — New York Times¶

The New York Times shares its service mesh journey and evaluates whether sidecar-less mesh is replacing sidecars.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026¶

From NLB Sprawl To Mesh Efficiency: How Skyscanner Handles 60M Reque... John Clark & Steven Thwaites — Skyscanner¶

Skyscanner describes moving from NLB sprawl to a mesh to handle 60M requests efficiently.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026¶

Zero Trust for Fintech: Building Secure Banking Infrastructure Wit... Prasta Maha & Herbert Sianturi ¶

Describes building secure zero-trust banking infrastructure for fintech on cloud native tooling.

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