Welcome + Introduction
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Envoy is a network proxy that aims to make the network transparent to applications, with the repo starting in May 2015 and reaching production in about four months to production (first production use Sept 2015). The project is open sourced Aug 8 2016, joined the CNCF in late 2017 and later graduated, and emphasizes low tail latency, rigorous testing and code review, wide extensibility via plugins, and control/data-plane decoupling through XDS configuration APIs while offering no paid version so ecosystem adoption accelerates.
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