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Layer5 News is the company blog at layer5.io, writing about systems and programming. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Layer5 is the steward of the Meshery and creator of Kanvas, the collaborative canvas for cloud-native infrastructure. We bridge the gap between design and operation, allowing engineers to create, configure, and deploy orchestratable diagrams in real time. Whether managing Kubernetes or multi-cloud e
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One way of interpreting this simile is to say that as just as one technology has subsumed (become the focal point) another technology, so does a service mesh as a layer on top of a container orchestrator. A fifth layer as described in The Enterprise Path to Service Mesh Architectures --> https://layer5.io/books/the-enterprise-path-to-service-mesh
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on “Istio – An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices”Submitted CNCF Adopts Meshery, the Service Mesh Management Plane as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe service mesh landscape will be updated soon - https://layer5.io/landscape
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on “AWS App Mesh – Service Mesh for Microservices on AWS”Submitted Kubernetes 1.29 Networking and Security Enhancements as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs I help lead the Istio User Experience Working Group, I can confirm that there's a cost to telemetry gathered and sent to Mixer and that tuning the type and amount of telemetry sent can can a dramatic impact on the overhead involved in using the service mesh. In general, the question of overhead is concern that most adopters of a service mesh ask. Akin to deploying an application performance monitoring agent to yo…
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on “LinkerD picking up steam from ISTIO”Submitted Why Claude Code Can't Find Your Tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meshery Surpasses 1k Contributors and over 2k GitHub stars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anthropic open sourced Claude Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Are Kubernetes Validating Admission Controllers? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Multi-Cluster Kubernetes? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Deploy Meshery on AKS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debug Envoy Proxy as a story · 1 points
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