A decade of Envoy: From Lyft's Debugging Nightmare to the AI Infra... Erica Hughberg & Rohit Agrawal

This talk traces Envoy's 10-year journey from Matt Klein's solution to Lyft's microservices debugging headaches to a CNCF graduated project powering Fortune 500 infrastructure. It covers three eras: the origin story of building a transparent network proxy, the ecosystem expansion into service mesh and load balancing, and the new AI Gateway era for intelligent inference routing and multi-provider failover. Ideal for infrastructure engineers, platform developers, and anyone building cloud native or AI systems.