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		jazoom on Sept 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hands on with Linkerd 2.0 A JVM attached as a sidecar to each pod is a waste of resources. Garbage collection isn't great for a high performance proxy.

williamallthing on Sept 21, 2018 | [–]

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.

otterley on Sept 21, 2018 | | [–]

Is there a significant demonstrable performance difference between Linkerd 2 and Envoy as a result?

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