[otterley]

> the former has a single vendor behind it, and the latter has almost all the cloud industry

The same could be said about Apple products, but that doesn't mean people should be dissuaded from using them. Quite the opposite: being in charge of a technology means you can be 100% focused on it and be relentlessly focused on making it great for your customers.

[williamallthing]

Exactly. Linkerd is fast and simple in no small part because it doesn't have 20 competing, sharp-elbowed vendors pulling it in 21 different directions. Customer focused is everything.