Moving Cloud Native Beyond HTTP: Adding Protocols to Unlock New Use Cases

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An IoT startup discovers Kubernetes lacks built‑in support beyond HTTP so it builds its own load balancing and routing, prompting a community doc at bitly/beyondhttp. The landscape now shows concrete progress: Gateway API adds TCP/UDP routing demos, Envoy UDP/TCP listeners plus WebAssembly enable custom protocol proxies, SMI defines HTTP/TCP/UDP traffic specs, CloudEvents has Kafka/MQTT/NATS bindings, and Network Service Mesh delivers L2/L3 for telco 5G use cases.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:29K8s: Gateway, aka Ingress V2
3. 7:12Envoy: TCP/UDP proxies & Wasm
4. 8:17Service Mesh Interface
5. 9:20CloudEvents
6. 10:10Network Service Mesh

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