Envoy Documentary - Speakeasy Productions

Witness the journey from inception to adoption of the fast-rising and industry changing edge and service proxy, Envoy.

Our story begins after Matt Klein leaves Twitter in search of a new career challenge. As the industry is exploding, the transition from monolith to microservices is a technical nightmare that plagues the silicon valley of 2015. Developing a proxy for the growing new ride sharing competitor, Lyft, will become Matt’s career defining innovation.

This dynamic documentary film takes viewers into the origins and meteoric rise of Envoy and its path to becoming a game-changing technology celebrated by hundreds of thousands of developers and companies across the globe.

Envoy: The Journey

Growing Pains

When Matt Klein joined Lyft in 2015, they were struggling with the migration from a monolithic to microservices architecture – as many companies in growth periods do. After experiencing all the typical microservice migration problems, Matt proposed a solution: to build a new application networking system.

Laying the Groundwork

Envoy was first rolled out at Lyft as an edge proxy, but by the end of 2015 was serving 100% of Lyft traffic. Over time, as Envoy incrementally proved its value, it expanded beyond an observability focus and by mid-2016, Envoy was used for all network communication at Lyft.

The Proxy of the Future

When the team decided to open source Envoy it gained traction quickly and was eventually adopted by Google, Pinterest, Apple, Square, Slack, VMware, Salesforce, Tetrate, Alibaba, and Apache Foundation. In 2017, it joined the CNCF.

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From the ground up

Matt Klein,
Creator of Envoy

Matt recounts the story of coding alone for three consecutive months to develop the initial version of Envoy.

Gaining Adoption

Anna Berenberg,
Engineering Fellow at Google

Anna was so impressed with Envoy when she discovered it that she knew she had to drop everything to push for its adoption at Google.

An End to Stagnation

Richard Li,
Co-founder & CPO at Ambassador Labs

Richard explains how the mainstream adoption of Envoy in 2017 ignited a wave of innovation among its competitors.

A proxy for the cloud

Chris Aniszczyk,
Chief Technology Officer at CNCF

A thought-provoking conversation about the unique qualities that make Envoy an exceptional open source project and a key component of the cloud-native stack.