Lightning Talk: Envoy @ Netflix - Kevin Baichoo, Netflix

Presenters Kevin Baichoo Source EnvoyCon NA 2025 Navigating the Envoy Labyrinth: Netflix’s Journey to Distributed System Mastery 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever found yourself staring at a complex microservices architecture, wondering how to connect all the dots while maintaining sanity and performance? Well, you’re not alone! Today, we’re diving deep into Netflix’s experience with Envoy, the powerful open-source edge and service proxy, and how they’ve wrangled it to manage their vast and dynamic ecosystem. Kevin Bichu, an Envoy maintainer and Netflix engineer, shared some invaluable insights at a recent conference, and we’re here to break it all down for you. ...

November 11, 2025 · 6 min

Lightning Talk: Rate Limiting With Quotas Is Hard - So We Didn't! - Will Betts & Jay Chauhan, Tesco

Presenters Will Betts Jay Chauhan Source EnvoyCon NA 2025 Beyond Quotas: How Tesco Mastered Dynamic Rate Limiting with Envoy 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt the sting of a rate limit kicking in when you least expect it, even when you know you’re not going overboard? Well, the brilliant minds at Tesco, the UK’s retail giant, have been wrestling with this very challenge. They’ve built a massive, distributed API gateway using Envoy and shared their journey from the complexities of quota-based rate limiting to a more dynamic, percentage-driven solution. Let’s dive into how they achieved this, making their API ecosystem robust and user-friendly! 👨‍💻 ...

November 11, 2025 · 5 min

One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Adding Org-Specific Gateway API Extensions wit... Teju Nareddy & Guy Daich

Presenters Teju Nareddy Guy Daich Source EnvoyCon NA 2025 Unleash the Power: Customizing Envoy Gateway with the Extension Server 🚀 Ever felt that a powerful open-source tool was almost perfect, but just needed a little something extra to fit your unique needs? If you’re nodding along, then this deep dive into Envoy Gateway’s extensibility is for you! We’re going to explore how you can go beyond the out-of-the-box features and truly make Envoy Gateway your own, all thanks to a game-changing component: the extension server. ...

November 11, 2025 · 6 min

Rethinking the Proxy Model: Implementing Envoy as a Node-Scoped Agent - Tony Allen, Google

Presenters Tony Allen Source EnvoyCon NA 2025 Goodbye Sidecars, Hello Node-Level Envoy! Google Cloud’s Bold Leap in Service Networking 🚀 Are you tired of the overhead, the complexity, and the sheer bloat that comes with the traditional Envoy sidecar pattern in Kubernetes? Get ready for a breath of fresh air because Google Cloud is charting a new course, and it’s all about ditching those per-pod proxies for a more elegant, efficient, and glorious service networking future! 🌐 ...

November 11, 2025 · 6 min

Building the Next Gen GitOps-based Platform With ConfigHub - Erick Bourgeois & Alexis Richardson

Presenters Erick Bourgeois Alexis Richardson Source FluxCon 2025 Taming the Configuration Chaos: A New Paradigm for Application Management 🚀 Are you tired of the endless YAML loops, the fragile configurations that bring down entire clusters, and the creeping dread that a single misplaced space could cause an outage? You’re not alone! In the complex world of modern application deployment, configuration chaos has become a major bottleneck, slowing down DevOps and causing sleepless nights. But what if there was a better way? This session introduces a groundbreaking new approach: Configuration as Data. ...

November 11, 2025 · 5 min