Container Journal
As the service mesh landscape continues to grow, its underlying technology stack is maturing as well. For example, service mesh advocates are introducing methods to extend Envoy, the open source proxy at the heart of many service meshes.
Pioneered by the teams behind Istio and Gloo, the introduction of WebAssembly into Envoy is enabling engineers to add custom filters, offering new controls and filtering abilities for incoming requests. Standardizing the WebAssembly module format could also retain vendor neutrality in a space with competing agendas.
Having bet big on microservices, API gateways and Envoy-based service mesh, Idit Levine now sees