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Buoyant
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Buoyant is the company behind Linkerd, a widely used open-source service mesh for managing communication and security between microservices in cloud-native applications.
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Buoyant was founded in 2013 by William Morgan and Oliver Gould, veterans of Twitter's infrastructure engineering team, where they had worked on internal systems for managing the enormously complex network of microservices, meaning the many small, independently deployable software components that make up a large modern application, that Twitter's engineering organization relied on. Drawing on that experience, Buoyant created and open-sourced Linkerd, one of the earliest and most widely adopted "service mesh" projects, a category of infrastructure software that manages the network communication between microservices, handling functions such as encrypting traffic between services, load balancing requests, retrying failed calls, and providing detailed observability into how requests flow through a complex distributed system, without requiring individual application developers to build this networking logic into every service themselves. Linkerd became particularly important as the broader industry shift toward Kubernetes-based container orchestration and microservices architectures accelerated, since these architectural patterns, while offering benefits in terms of independent scalability and deployment flexibility, also introduce significant new complexity in managing how the resulting large number of small services communicate securely and reliably with each other. Buoyant has positioned Linkerd as a lighter-weight, simpler-to-operate alternative to some competing service mesh projects, particularly Istio, which some organizations have found more operationally complex to run in production despite offering a broader feature set. Buoyant's commercial business primarily involves providing enterprise support, managed hosting, and additional tooling around the open-source Linkerd project for organizations running it in production, a common commercialization model for companies built around a widely adopted open-source infrastructure project. The company has raised venture funding from investors including True Ventures and Battery Ventures, and Linkerd has become one of the graduated projects of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, reflecting its broad adoption and maturity within the cloud-native ecosystem.
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