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EnvoySoftware

2 companies

SquareCompany
Payments and commerce company (Block), maker of Square seller tools
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Support for gRPC meant that we could pick up the gRPC work that had been partially rolled out, but rely on Envoy for the load balancer logic. Even more important for us, this meant that we’d be able use the exact same load balancer for RPC and HTTP traffic.

Why Square migrated its service-to-service traffic to an Envoy service mesh

developer.squareup.com ↗·2019-03-29Wrong?

LyftCompany
Ride-sharing company that originally built Envoy.
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At Lyft, we've made tremendous strides in our resilience and observability since we started deploying Envoy.

Lyft VP Engineering testimonial on the Envoy project site (undated page)

envoyproxy.io ↗Wrong?

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