Overview and State of Linkerd

This talk provides an overview of Linkerd, a popular service mesh, and discusses its current state and future developments. It covers Linkerd's core features, such as observability, reliability, and security, and highlights recent advancements like circuit breaking, header-based routing, and ingress support. The presentation also touches upon Linkerd's philosophy of simplicity and its use of Rust for its proxy, and discusses upcoming features and contributions to the Gateway API for mesh management.