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by otterley 2827 days ago
Do you know why they migrated from Scala?
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jazoom 2827 days ago
A JVM attached as a sidecar to each pod is a waste of resources.

Garbage collection isn't great for a high performance proxy.

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williamallthing 2827 days ago
Exactly! We considered Go briefly but in the end, the magic intersection of native-code performance, plus guaranteed memory safety, trumped every other concern for the data plane.
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otterley 2827 days ago
Is there a significant demonstrable performance difference between Linkerd 2 and Envoy as a result?
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