Lyft Envoy. What’s That?

5 years ago medium.com

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For quite a while, Lyft has been contributing some wonderful projects to the open-source community. As of today, the modern way of building software systems is by leveraging a microservice architecture. Microservices — also known as the microservice architecture — is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of services that are: Highly maintainable and testable

And since Envoy is a proxy, its responsibility is to receive, handle, and monitor all of the traffic going to and from the service.

Using an Envoy proxy makes software systems more transparent, more resilient, easier to develop against, and less complex to debug.

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