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The Livin' On The Edge Podcast Series

At Ambassador, we're more than just a cloud-native application development company. We're a catalyst for change in how enterprises design, deploy, and manage microservices on Kubernetes.

About the Podcast Series

Join us to learn about best practices for releasing functionality via continuous delivery pipelines, and investigate the latest developer tooling, API gateway technology, and service mesh implementations.

In our "Livin' On The Edge" series, we interview practitioners and senior technical leaders from organizations such as HashiCorp, Lyft, GitHub, Ticket Master, Buoyant, and more.

Our Host: Markeo (Kay) James

Kay James is a solutions engineer at Ambassador Labs and currently resides in New York. Passionate about technology, good food, and creating great music, Kay enjoys being able to help others solve technology problems. Prior to joining Ambassador Labs, she graduated from New York University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

All Episodes

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Developer Control Planes: A CTO's Point of View

Several themes and insights emerged from the conversation: Platforms are evolving: While Kubernetes has emerged as a kind of standard, providing more granular control and enhancing the ability to curate different platform experiences for different types of teams, it isn't entirely accurate to say that the platform question is settled. Kubernetes may be the platform around which focus has converged because of its fluidity and flexibility, letting you do just about anything. But more broadly, platforms continue to evolve, in large part because there are so many different ways to accomplish the many tasks that make up cloud-native development. On one hand, more mature companies may be happy with the Kubernetes setup. Many others, though, want a more curated, structured and opinionated path, with tools sitting on top of Kubernetes.

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Developer Control Planes: An Engineering Director's Point of View

Crystal Hirschorn, Director of Engineering - Infrastructure, SRE and Developer Experience at Snyk, shared some time with Ambassador Labs's Head of Developer Relations, Daniel Bryant, to talk about all things platform engineering and building control planes that “pave a path” for developers. Here are some of the key takeaways from their conversation:

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HTTP/3: Use Cases, Envoy Support, and Google’s Rollout

A number of key themes emerged: HTTP/2 sped up HTTP/1 dramatically – but if you lose one packet on a connection, everything gets stalled until the packet is retransmitted. This is a fundamental limitation of TCP, so HTTP/3 speeds up HTTP/2 even more by implementing the protocol on top of UDP.

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