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Updated 13th October 2025
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DATA SCIENTIST
500M - 1B USD, MiscellaneousFAVORABLE
“Linkerd - Efficient for transparent proxy”
Linkerd is a network stack for microservices. It is used as a transparent proxy.
Linkerd is open source tool.
It handles everything to make inter-service RPC safe and sane.
It also handles load balancing, failure handling, routing, service discovery, instrumentation.
Global CISO
250M - 500M USD, IT ServicesCRITICAL
“Fairly solid solution for Kubernetes”
Solid solution for centralized managing of our microservices, not the best, but of acceptable quality. Some stability issues noted.
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Company Description
Buoyant is an enterprise focused on delivering security, reliability, and efficiency in the modern, cloud-native sphere. This company developed the open source Linkerd service mesh, which offers an option for organizations to integrate premium security and reliability into their networks. The innovative features of Linkerd include granular L7 authorization policy, zero-trust enforcement, cross-cluster failover, cost-aware multicluster routing, and more. Importantly, these can be achieved without any modifications to the existing application code or foundational networking configuration.
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Private
Year Founded
2015
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
11 - 50
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Fairly solid solution for Kubernetes
Solid solution for centralized managing of our microservices, not the best, but of acceptable quality. Some stability issues noted. - DATA SCIENTIST50M-1B USDMiscellaneousReview Source
Linkerd - Efficient for transparent proxy
Linkerd is a network stack for microservices. It is used as a transparent proxy. Linkerd is open source tool. It handles everything to make inter-service RPC safe and sane. It also handles load balancing, failure handling, routing, service discovery, instrumentation. - PROJECT ENGINEER50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
A Perfect tool for your IT Service Mesh
We are using Linkerd's services since last 1 year and our experience with it is exceptionally good. It adds critical security and observability features to Kubernetes cluster. - VP10B+ USDTelecommunicationReview Source
Lightweight , simple ,security-first service mesh for cloud-native applications.
Observability , reliability and security for containerized applications. - IT ASSOCIATE<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Ultralight service mesh by CNCF project
Linkerd service mesh is one of the best mesh if you have to setup a mesh with kubernetes. It's setup is straight forward as we define its configurations as part of kubernetes manifests.
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