How Lyft migrated to a service mesh with Envoy

Daniel Hochman is a senior infrastructure engineer at Lyft. He’s passionate about scaling innovative products and processes to improve quality of life for those inside and outside of the company. During his time at Lyft, he has successfully guided the platform through an explosion of product and organizational growth. He wrote one of the highest-throughput microservices and introduced several critical storage technologies. Daniel most recently guided the rollout out of Envoy-Redis at Lyft which included a full on-the-fly replacement of Lyft’s high-throughput caching infrastructure. Daniel leads traffic networking at Lyft and is responsible for designing and implementing Lyft’s frontend infrastructure to scale for increasing numbers of diverse clients.

Jose Nino is the lead for core server networking group at Lyft. Jose has been instrumental in creating systems to scale Lyft’s Envoy production environment for increasingly large deployments and engineering orgs. He’s worked as an open source Envoy maintainer and has nurtured Envoy’s growing community. Recently, Jose has moved on to scaling Lyft’s network load tolerance systems. Jose has spoken about Envoy and other related topics at several venues, most recently at KubeCon EU 2018 and at the main stage at KubeCon NA 2018.