Virtual EnvoyCon 2026
who it's for
platform engineers, gateway operators, site reliability engineers, service mesh engineers, cloud architects, Go developers, Rust developers
topics
MCP JSON-RPC parsing; Envoy AI Gateway architecture; stateful load balancing integration; dynamic Envoy modules; WASM and filter extensibility; GitOps for gateway provisioning; custom SocketInterface implementations; S3 gateway with ext_authz; Dicer autosharder key routing; kube-bind cross-cluster binding; token-aware model rollout and metrics
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Remarks | Erica Hughberg, Rohit Agrawal | 04m |
Event opens with housekeeping and a link to the CNCF code of conduct and the schedule pinned in chat; the program lists nine sessions that span concrete work… | ||
| A decade of Envoy: From Lyft's Debugging Nightmare to the AI Infra... | Erica Hughberg, Rohit Agrawal | 11m |
Begins as Lyft’s fix for 30 microservices that made failures opaque and evolves into a platform adopted broadly: 30 microservices, graduated in two years… | ||
| MCP support in Envoy | Boteng Yao | 31m |
Envoy adds body-aware MCP parsing to decode JSON-RPC payloads and expose method, tool and resource attributes for routing and RBAC; a production-ready MCP… | ||
| Seamless AI-as-a-Service across Kubernetes Clusters With Envoy AI Gate... | Karol Szwaj | 17m |
A central GPU-enabled AI hub runs Envoy AI Gateway and a kube-bind backend and exposes model backends (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock or self‑hosted) as Kubernetes… | ||
| Integrating Stateful Load Balancing At Scale In Envoy | Suyog Soti, Gaurav Nanda | 26m |
Databricks integrates Dicer autosharder with Envoy to route keys to in-pod caches, achieving 90-95% cache hit rates and supporting 99.95% availability while… | ||
| Bringing the power of Envoy extensibility to Go and Rust developers | Ignasi Barrera | 20m |
Built On Envoy (BOE) provides a CLI, scaffolding and a catalog so Go and Rust developers can fetch or compile dynamic modules locally, launch Envoy proxying… | ||
| GitOps Your Gateway: Automating Traffic Management at... | Colin Lacy, Grace Brickley | 27m |
Shows a concrete GitOps pipeline that auto‑provisions CI webhook endpoints and gateway routes: a multi‑phase Argo CD + OpenTofu multi‑phase workflow creates a… | ||
| Beyond OS Sockets: Custom Socket Interfaces in Envoy | Basundhara Chakrabarty | 15m |
Envoy exposes a pluggable SocketInterface that lets bootstrap extensions replace kernel sockets end to end: a resolver binds an address to a socket backend… | ||
| SeaWall: Building a Planetary-Scale S3 Gateway with Envoy | Raeed Asif | 14m |
SeaWall is an Envoy-based S3 gateway that handles 81 billion requests/week and cuts authorization latency from ~20 ms to sub-ms auth latency by using gRPC… | ||
| AI Traffic Is Different: Rethinking Proxy Arc... | Radhika Patwari, Raushan Prabhakar | 26m |
Claims that traditional proxies fail for long-lived, GPU-backed inference and present a working Envoy-based gateway: control plane (Kubernetes + Gateway… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Erica Hughberg, Rohit Agrawal | 04m |
Conference wraps by listing concrete takeaways: Envoy continues growing while staying stable, AI traffic patterns are reshaping routing, and operators focus on… | ||
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