Opinionated read, but interesting. That being said, Linkerd wasn't the first service mesh — SmartStack predates it by three years. [1] Although they didn't use

Opinionated read, but interesting. That being said, Linkerd wasn't the first service mesh — SmartStack predates it by three years. [1] Although they didn't use the (then-nonexistent) "service mesh" term at the time, it pioneered the concept of userspace TCP proxies configured by a control plane management daemon. I doubt the Linkerd folks are unaware of it, so it was a surprising omission. [1]: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/smartstack-service-discovery-in-the-cloud-4b8a080de619 https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/smartstack-service-dis...