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Matt Klein

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5 years

Last week I sat for an internal interview about my career progression to high level IC engineer, with a focus on how I've never felt I needed to become a manager to gain influence. I thought I would share some of my career advice for aspiring IC "lifers." Thread!

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7 years

As promised here is my (lengthy) introduction to modern load balancing. Please enjoy and let me know if you have any clarifying questions/edits and I will fix!

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5 years

Debugging is an engineering superpower. Lots of folks can write code, relatively few can efficiently debug programs and systems. Become good at it and you become indispensable.

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5 years

You know what? Everything worked before we switched to Kubernetes. Don't @ me.

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Matt Klein

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4 years

Lot of armchair quarterbacking about the AWS/Cloudflare outages. I never comment on outages because, frankly, "the internet" is a Rube Goldberg machine, built on buckets of tears and non-obvious (and often non-technical) constraints. It's a miracle it works 1% as well as it does.

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4 years

Daughter++. Born last night at home, 5 days overdue, she clearly was waiting for the new administration before coming out. I don't blame her! All are happy and healthy. 👶

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4 years

It is hard for me to imagine a greater waste of human engineering potential than the worldwide migration from Python 2 -> Python 3. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

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5 years

A thread on "service meshes" and distributed system software complexity in general. Buckle up!

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4 years

The perception in our industry that you need to "love what you do," "focus on your side projects," "nerd out," and generally "hustle," drives me batty. It is 100% fine to be here purely for the 💰. 🧵

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Matt Klein

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6 years

Let me tell you about the time that I (indirectly) logged out about 40M Android users from @Twitter with a single character bug. They couldn't log back on for several hours, and the follow on impact on logged in users was ... not great.

❁ Official

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6 years

Tweeps! What’s the craziest infra incident you worked on at Twitter. Today I was somehow reminded of the dup snowflake issue /cc @rk @nk

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5 years

This meme is my life. (Courtesy of @kniga )

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6 years

Super excited to announce that @EnvoyProxy is now a @CloudNativeFdn graduated project, joining @kubernetesio and @PrometheusIO ! This is a fantastic milestone and a clear indication of the industry's confidence in Envoy's future. 💥📈🙏

Envoy graduates!

Today we are thrilled to announce that Envoy has become a CNCF graduated project, joining Kubernetes and Prometheus. The successful…

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6 years

I finally hit my monorepo discussion limit, so I present you with "Monorepos: Please don't!" Enjoy. 😃

Monorepos: Please don’t!

Here we are at the beginning of 2019 and I’m engaged in yet another discussion on the merits (or lack thereof) of keeping all of an…

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5 years

. @GCPcloud has announced public availability of L7 ILB, the first major public ☁️ fully hosted @EnvoyProxy offering. I have been working with this amazing team for over 2 years (!!!). Thrilled to see this product launch and excited for what's next. 🎉

Driving enterprise modernization with Google Cloud infrastructure | Google Cloud Blog

GCP has new features to help you migrate from Microsoft Azure. Plus, Traffic Director is GA, and Layer 7 Internal Load Balancer is in beta.

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7 years

I'm not a normal blogger, but I wrote about a big decision that I have made over the last couple of months:

Optimizing impact: why I will not start an Envoy platform company

The following are my own views, and not that of my employer, Lyft.

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5 years

One last thing: don't let anyone tell you that the tech/engineering is the easy part. It's not. It's hard. Soft skills are also hard. It's ALL hard, and both are required to succeed.

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4 years

I think about this often. Throwing away nuclear power is one of the greatest policy failings of our time.

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4 years

More like this.

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5 years

HTTP/1.1 was ratified 23 years ago. When I started writing @EnvoyProxy ~5 years ago I decided to not support HTTP/1.0. Not only did that not hold, but we continue to get HTTP/1.0 bugs filed against our support for it. Legacy really, truly is forever.

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Matt Klein

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3 years

5 years ago today, @EnvoyProxy became OSS. This has been the journey of a lifetime. To celebrate, I wrote a "brief" history and retrospective of the project. A heartfelt thanks to all maintainers, contributors, and users who made Envoy what it is today. ❤️

5 years of Envoy OSS

Today marks the 5 year anniversary of the open sourcing of Envoy Proxy. It would not be an exaggeration to say that professionally, the last 5 years have been a roller coaster of epic proportions, my

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1 year

Exciting news. I am starting a company!

The next chapter: bitdrift

Today I am thrilled to announce a watershed moment in my career: I am starting a company! Before I get into the details of what the new company is about, I will start with a bit of recent history. Dur

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Matt Klein

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5 years

When I primarily do code/design reviews, wade into company/industry politics, write arch/vision docs, support a team, etc., sometimes it's hard to see the immediate value. On the other hand, when I fix a bug I feel great. Moral: savor your time as a junior dev - it's fun.

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4 years

Amazing post from the folks at @Dropbox on their migration to @EnvoyProxy . I continue to be blown away by how far we have come as a community in such a short period of time. 🙏🚀

How we migrated Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy

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Matt Klein

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7 years

Functional and beautiful UIs are the next frontier in infrastructure. The UIs we use today are almost universally terrible. Whoever starts treating infra UI design as seriously as Apple treats consumer design will have a huge competitive advantage.

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11 months

Just purged the last bit of Go from our stack. 🗑️ Rust/Typescript only now! So nice. 🥳🚀

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3 years

I admit I'm a bit out of the loop these days, but I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out what Infinidash is. The fact that I did this, and also can no longer comprehend the AWS networking offerings, is a good indication that AWS has a legitimate product discovery problem.

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5 years

Speaking of promotions, the last time I got one was back in my early 20s. I have never seen a promotion process that is not subjective, political, and biased (I say this as a privileged white male, I shudder to think how others fare).

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7 years

I've been super fascinated by Meltdown and Spectre since the news broke. I wrote up a mid-level explainer based on my current understanding of the vulnerabilities and mitigations. Love the work I'm doing right now, but this has me really missing OS work!

Meltdown and Spectre, explained

Although these days I’m mostly known for application level networking and distributed systems, I spent the first part of my career working…

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5 years

TIL that Lyft does ~40M RPS to Redis, across ~100 clusters, all via @EnvoyProxy Redis proxy. We are now transparently migrating this traffic to @awscloud hosted Redis Cluster, via the new @EnvoyProxy Redis Cluster filter with 0 service code changes required. Amazing stuff!

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5 years

Angels are singing.

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The politics around Istio and Knative within Google are fascinating. AFAICT from the outside, they are primarily driven by a few execs who believe that Google "gave away the farm" when they moved K8s into a foundation. A few of my thoughts on this subject: 🧵

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3 years

I find myself increasingly saying that distributed tracing has one of the worst effort/cost to value ratios in the history of our industry. The amount of 💰 poured in compared to useful output is staggering. (I briefly considered turning off replies on this one. Be kind. 😂)

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7 years

Unpopular Friday opinion: 1) Observability == monitoring 2) SoA == microservices Please stop trying to create differences via linguistics when there are none. Instead, solve real problems for your customers. I know I'm about to get yelled at a lot. 💥

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6 years

💥💥💥What a day! @awscloud launches App Mesh, a managed @EnvoyProxy control plane. So cool! I will have more to say on this later but here is the launch blog:

Introducing AWS App Mesh – service mesh for microservices on AWS | Amazon Web Services

AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that allows you to easily monitor and control communications across microservices applications on AWS. You can use App Mesh with microservices running on Amazon Elastic...

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Matt Klein

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4 years

4 years ago @EnvoyProxy became OSS. Although I feel like I have aged 20 years in this time span (not all due to Envoy, but mostly!), working on this project has been the career opportunity of a lifetime and I am extremely grateful for what we have accomplished together. 🙏❤️🚀

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In summary: focus on personal growth, learning, and relationships. Advocate for yourself relentlessly. Think about impact via breadth versus depth. Stay an IC If you like it. If switching teams or jobs helps realize your goals, and you have the ability to do so, make the leap.

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7 years

1 year ago we made @EnvoyProxy public. What a year! Today super excited to announce joining @CloudNativeFdn 🎉

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5 years

Super, super, super excited to announce Envoy Mobile, the future of #iOS and #Android application networking, powered by @EnvoyProxy .

Announcing Envoy Mobile

Today we are thrilled to announce the initial OSS preview release of Envoy Mobile, an iOS and Android client network library that brings…

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5 years

Initial support for @apachekafka has merged in @EnvoyProxy . Amazing work by Adam on this. Please try it out! 🚀

Kafka: Add broker-level metrics-collecting filter by adamkotwasinski · Pull Request #8188 ·...

Description: Simple Kafka filter for broker. Grabs and decodes messages and updates metrics. If message could not be recognised (the protocol used by client<->broker comms is higher t...

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4 years

Very excited to announce that WASM support has landed upstream in @EnvoyProxy ! Though we don't have docs yet (planned for 1.17), this is a fantastic milestone and a herculean effort by the folks at @Google that pushed this through! 🚀🎉💥

Upstream envoyproxy/envoy-wasm. by jplevyak · Pull Request #12546 · envoyproxy/envoy

For an explanation of how to fill out the fields, please see the relevant section in PULL_REQUESTS.md Commit Message: Upstream envoyproxy/envoy-wasm. Additional Description: This PR represents the ...

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5 years

When asked for IC career advice the first thing I always say is: YOU grow your career and influence. Not management, not the company, YOU. This means constantly advocating for ways to grow: subjects to learn, projects with increased scope, and sometimes new teams or companies.

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This also means "managing up" is critical. Don't assume your manager is acting in your best interest. Hopefully they are (when your interests *and theirs* align), but sometimes they aren't, and it's important to recognize that early and correct it, or eject if it's not fixable.

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7 years

I wrote about eventual consistency in distributed system networking. Please enjoy and I look forward to your feedback!

Embracing eventual consistency in SoA networking

One of the fundamental design tenets of Envoy is eventual consistency, permeating nearly every aspect of the system from the threading…

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5 years

Do NOT stay in a job solely to get a promotion or more money, or if you are hungry for more growth, but finding it difficult to carve out opportunities. In these cases, consider switching jobs as a way to fast track your growth with less politics.

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Very excited to see @GCPcloud officially launch Traffic Director, a managed @EnvoyProxy control plane. This team is fantastic and I can't wait to see how the product evolves over the next few years. Let the Traffic Director v. App Mesh battle begin. 😀

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5 years

It appears that @EnvoyProxy is now a critical part of modern love. ♥♥♥ (I would make a joke about swiping but I'm not sure whether right or left is the good direction 😉)

Tinder’s move to Kubernetes

Written By: Chris O’Brien, Engineering Manager |Chris Thomas, Engineering Manager| Jinyong Lee, Senior Software Engineer

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Matt Klein

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2 years

Today we are super excited to announce Envoy Gateway, a new member of the @EnvoyProxy family of projects. I am *really* proud of the community coming together to make this happen. It's the very beginning and we have so much to do. Join us! 🎉🚀

Introducing Envoy Gateway

Today we are thrilled to announce Envoy Gateway, a new member of the Envoy Proxy family aimed at significantly decreasing the barrier to…

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Matt Klein

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4 years

So much this. Not only is Bitcoin a giant Ponzi Scheme, but it's embarrassingly energy wasteful and at odds with the carbon free future we need to work towards.

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4 years

Let's discuss the environmental cost of bitcoin. Because despite all the push for sustainable and green investment in the tech sector, there's a giant smoldering Chernobyl sitting at the heart of Silicon Valley which a lot of investors would prefer you remain quiet about. 🧵 (1/)

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2 years ago today we OSSd @EnvoyProxy . Thank you for coming along on this amazing journey. It has been the most challenging and rewarding period of my career. 😀

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I'm doing a particularly ugly refactor, and it's during these moments that I most wonder how folks build anything other than small programs using dynamic languages; I would be utterly lost without static types and the compiler.

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6 years

Tonight I learned that 50% of @eBay 's worldwide traffic is terminated by @EnvoyProxy . Wow! 📈

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6 years

. @GCPcloud announces traffic director, a managed control plane for @EnvoyProxy deployments run by the customer. Bring your own proxies from multiple ☁️ and on-prem and have global lb and routing supplied by Google. ♥️ the hybrid approach to ☁️ managed Envoy. 🎉

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6 years

It's done. 2018 is the year of Linux on the desktop.

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3 years

I'm finding the recent dialog on remote pay adjustments tiring. Here is the frank reality about pay: it is purely about your ability to negotiate with your employer. Your employer will give you as much money as required to yield an expected amount of value to the company. 🧵

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3 years

Very excited to announce that @EnvoyProxy for Windows is now considered GA. Congratulations to the cross-functional team from @VMware and @Microsoft that put in a massive amount of work in order to get this feature over the finish line. 🎉

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I started my career at @Microsoft in the early 00s, working on Windows CE/Windows Phone/embedded/Windows NT kernel related tech. Those were the days of "OSS is evil", 7 layers of approval to use an OSS library, etc. Seeing the new @Microsoft from the outside is astounding.

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5 years

Ok the quiet period is over so welcome to my thread on "high" levels of ☁️ spending.

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5 years

@skamille I have lots to say on this topic, but I cannot say any of it during the quiet period. Perhaps after. 😀

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I wasn't thrilled when my son decided to wear a Python onesie, BUT we had a long talk and he understands that Python is for writing scripts, not services. So ✔️.

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4 years

It's been a long road, but we are now shipping ARM64 @EnvoyProxy images! Huge thanks to @zlizan and the fine folks at @arm for pushing this over the finish line. 🎉

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Super excited to see @awscloud putting up @EnvoyProxy PRs. We now have active contributors from "all the ☁️s" (GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN, BABA, IBM, CRM, VMW, and others). 🚀📈 #OSS

Add AWS http request signer by lavignes · Pull Request #5580 · envoyproxy/envoy

Description: As part of leveraging Envoy in AWS App Mesh, we implemented a gRPC credentials extension that uses AWS IAM auth. To be able to use authenticate gRPC requests with AWS IAM credentials, ...

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Folks, @github statistics ARE NOT A USEFUL PROXY FOR CONTRIBUTION AND PRODUCTIVITY. If your performance evaluation and/or hiring process is taking this into consideration it is fundamentally broken. This is such a huge pet peeve of mine. 😠

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6 years

As promised, my thoughts on the human scalability of DevOps. Enjoy!

The human scalability of “DevOps”

As I recently wrote on Twitter, I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time lately thinking about the human scalability of “DevOps.”…

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4 years

The "root cause" is rarely interesting to me. I would much rather understand the complete history of the system, and the decisions made along the way given the constraints at the time. This part is rarely discussed though, much to our collective detriment.

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I often say that the key to happiness in life is having low expectations. Nowhere does that apply more than my Linux laptop. I never expect it to work, yet it does, and it makes me so happy!

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Finally, I will reiterate how critical networking and building relationships on the job is. Every job I have moved to (save 1) has been via previous colleagues. Finding people you like working with and for, and moving through the industry with them can be a great growth tactic.

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The job market for engineers has never been better. DO stay in a job if you are growing, learning, increasing your scope, and generally happy.

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5 years

Super cool. This is the official proposal for @grpcio to adopt the @EnvoyProxy xDS API for load balancing. It may be that Envoy's true lasting legacy will be its API. Looking forward to the universal data plane API (UDPA) becoming a real thing. 🚀

A27: xDS-Based Global Load Balancing by markdroth · Pull Request #170 · grpc/proposal

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4 years

101: Intro to Googling and inquisition 201: Topics on grief and despair 301: Workshop on realistic expectations 401: Symposium on group therapy 501: Advanced topics on meditation and spirituality.

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Instead of commenting on the relevance of a CS degree, I’d love to see senior folks in our industry sketch out a proposed curriculum for a software engineering degree. Would be fascinating, I think.

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2 years

I find myself reaching for Rust now in places I would have previously used Python. Impressively versatile and what a gift to avoid the 🐍!

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4 years

Very nice history of @HAProxy . As I frequently say, I don't believe in invention. Everything is an iteration of what came before. @EnvoyProxy stands on the shoulders of great projects like @HAProxy and @nginx and would not exist without them. Thank you!

The History of HAProxy

HAProxy's origin story is one that has not been told and you may be curious about its roots and what drove it to be what it is today.

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Googling for some code, finding it on stack overflow, copying it into my project, and having it work with only minor editing is what I live for as a software engineer. 🎉

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6 years

Woke up on the train this morning and said to my wife: "should we go to the observability car?" Wife: "observation car" Computing has broken me.

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6 years

Alright I have some time (✈️) and I want to talk about why I'm so excited about the launch of @awscloud App Mesh on the heels of @GCPcloud Traffic Director a few months ago: we are actually getting a universal data plane and this has HUGE implications.

Matt Klein

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6 years

. @GCPcloud announces traffic director, a managed control plane for @EnvoyProxy deployments run by the customer. Bring your own proxies from multiple ☁️ and on-prem and have global lb and routing supplied by Google. ♥️ the hybrid approach to ☁️ managed Envoy. 🎉

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At higher IC levels, you will generally need to choose between focusing on "breadth" versus "depth." Breadth means having wide influence over the technical direction of a business. This typically requires staying at a company for a long time to build context/relationships.

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While I grab my 🍿 and watch the soap opera that is istio, knative, and "service mesh" play out, the underlying reality is that @EnvoyProxy is taking over the world, and solving real problems for real users every day <- this is what keeps me going.

Announcing Envoy Project Journey Report

Today we are very excited to release our Project Journey Report for Envoy. This is the second reports we have issued for CNCF graduated projects (the first was Kubernetes). Envoy is a widely-adopted…

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In summary: do big things, 🔥 brightly, and when you fuck up, own it. And... never for%Get the oopses. 😉

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I am a firm believer that in the 10 year timeframe, FaaS is all anyone will interact with. If I am a developer I want to provide code that: - R/Ws from the DB - Calls APIs - Queues/deques jobs That's about it. Everything else is noise.

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I won! Thank you for your support. I'm looking forward to pushing for transparency as well as the interests of project maintainers on the CNCF governing board, alongside @michellenoorali . Let's do this! 🙏

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5 years

I have decided to run for the open @CloudNativeFdn developer rep governing board seat. If you are a maintainer on a graduated or incubating CNCF project, I would like to talk to you and earn your vote. A short thread on why I am running. 🧵

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Seattle computer folks: a while ago we inherited an Apple Lisa 2. It appears to boot, but we don't have the startup disk. At best it is worth a few thousand, but don't have energy to sell. DM me if interested for hobby use and willing to do local pickup.

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Congrats to @thekonginc on their launch of Kuma, a new @EnvoyProxy based service mesh solution. The team at Kong is extremely sharp and has excellent developer focus. I'm super excited to see this project grow and mature over the coming months. 🎉

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👇 Our industry's apathy towards quality drives me absolutely insane. Bugs happen, but they should be understood and fixed. People are frequently surprised to hear that I investigate and fix all Envoy crashes, no matter how rare. It's for this reason. Our 💩 should work.

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I normally shy away from writing about SW engineering, but I decided to write about crashing as a useful mechanism to increase SW reliability. Enjoy!

Crash early and crash often for more reliable software

I’ve increasingly noticed a disturbing trend in software engineering: the idea that any total program crash (via segmentation fault, panic…

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This is a choice HN comment. 😂

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P.S. It seems that "IC" is not a common term everywhere. It means individual contributor. Someone who has no direct reports and is not a people manager.

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I verbalized for the first time recently how much having a kid has helped me deal with work stupidity. I just don't care as much as I used to and it's pretty nice.

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Finally! Great step forward by the community. The hype to reward ratio of tracing is skewed in the wrong direction, and competing projects/standards were not helping. Let's help folks get the data out so we can focus on better viz/analysis. Yay! 🎉

Merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus

Goals and Non-Goals

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Me helping reviewing CFPs: The title needs more pop. Add "cloud native." Them: Isn't that a bit much? Me: This is all bullshit. Bullshit it up. Them: Add "web-scale" also? I ❤️ teaching.

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Y'all need to take a deep breath about service meshes, OSS licenses, and OSS foundations and go bake some bread or something. 🍞

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What @eBay has done with @EnvoyProxy is honestly mind blowing. Check out this talk when the videos go up.

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I think I wrote code for 6+ hours of an ~8 hour work day today. Absolutely shocking (and fun!). 🤯 Very excited to bring what we are working on to all of you in the future.

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If you are growing in your abilities and generally happy at a job, and a promotion is a side effect, that's great. If your growth is stalled, consider switching jobs, and you will very likely get a promotion and more money, with less political heartache.

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New post on why modern observability is so expensive.

Why is observability so expensive?

It’s no secret that observability costs are top of mind for many organizations in the post-zero interest rate phenomenon (ZIRP) era (see here, here, and here for example discussions, though similar se

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5 years

What about CVS? 😢

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If you have used Subversion or Mercurial in your career, you are old. I'm sorry. Welcome.

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Great thread from the creator of Dogecoin. IMO the Ponzi scheme is on the verge of falling apart. My fear is when it does, it's going to take the rest of the financial system with it and cause the next large recession.

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Matt Klein

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4 years

Super excited to announce the alpha release of @EnvoyProxy for @Windows . This has been an amazing cross-functional effort, especially by @VMware and @Microsoft . Well done and please test! 👏🎉🥳🚀

Announcing Alpha Support for Envoy on Windows

Envoy is now available for Alpha evaluation by Windows users

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As I enter another perf cycle at "big tech" I can't stop thinking about this tweet. I find it impossible to believe that perf review as we know it is economically beneficial for either employer or employee. What to studies show? Have there been rigorous studies?

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2 months

Clickhouse is definitely my favorite technology of the last decade (other than Envoy of course 😉)

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Matt Klein

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7 years

I wrote about service mesh data plane vs. control plane. Please let me know what you think!

Service mesh data plane vs. control plane

As the idea of the “service mesh” has become increasingly popular over the last two years and as the number of entrants into the space has…

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7 years

Super excited to see @EnvoyProxy added to @Google security patch reward program as "critical SW used for cloud computing." Bounties IMO are best way to find security issues. Pls spread the word so the white hats start hacking! 🐞

Open Source Security Patch Rewards

The Patch Rewards program rewards proactive improvements to security in open source projects.

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Matt Klein

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6 years

I often say to the juniors on my team: if you don't break something in a way that someone notices every (long) once in a while you are not doing big enough things. I try to live what I preach. 😉

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