Mitch Connors
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where they keep going back
- Istio Day Europe3 editions2023–2025
- ServiceMeshCon North America3 editions2020–2022
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe2 editions2022–2025
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who talks about the same things
- Keith Mattix II16 talks
- Faseela K10 talks
- Louis Ryan9 talks
- Zack Butcher13 talks
- Iris Ding5 talks
- Matt Turner25 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Istio in Production: Expected Value, Results, and Effort | Platform Engineering Day Europe 2026 | 2026-03-23 |
GitHub runs Istio across its platform (about 130 clusters, ~250k pods) and a github.com mesh of 21 clusters with ~110k pods, enforcing mTLS and centralized… | ||
| A New Frontier: Sidecarless Service Mesh on Windows With Istio's Amb... | Istio Day Europe 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Claims a practical sidecarless path: a small Rust zTunnel runs per node and handles mTLS while full Envoy on Linux, zTunnel on Windows provides layer‑7… | ||
| What's New in Istio? | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Istio now ships ambient mode GA since November that runs proxies only where needed while continuing to support sidecars, and it installs with a one-command… | ||
| Vanishing Point: Reimagining the Meaning of a Mesh | Istio Day NA 2024 | 2024-11-12 |
Ambient mesh replaces per-pod sidecars with a per-node zTunnel L4 proxy (Rust) plus on-demand Envoy waypoint pods for L7, cutting CPU/memory and operational… | ||
| Panel: Ask Me Anything About Istio Service Mesh | Istio Day Europe 2024 | 2024-03-19 |
Istio ambient hits alpha in Istio 1.18 and aims for beta in 1.22 with a focus on reducing sidecar overhead and infrastructure cost, plus ambient L7… | ||
| Ambient Operations: Automating Istio Orchestration with Argo | Istio Day North America 2023 | 2023-11-06 |
Ambient Mode removes sidecars so Istio upgrades become fully declarative and automatable with Argo; a live reference architecture and three demos show platform… | ||
| Panel: Ask Me Anything About Istio Service Mesh | Istio Day North America 2023 | 2023-11-06 |
Istio ambient reaches alpha in Istio 1.18 and the community targets beta by fixing reliability and integrations rather than rushing GA, claiming sidecar-less… | ||
| Day 1 - Closing Remarks | IstioCon 2023 | 2023-09-25 |
Day one closes and the conference thanks Google Cloud sponsor and announces a full day tomorrow starting 7:30 a.m. Pacific. Sessions slated include a practical… | ||
| Day 2 - Closing Remarks | IstioCon 2023 | 2023-09-25 |
IstioCon 2023 wraps today with a shoutout to Diamond sponsor Google Cloud for making the event possible, a QR code to Slack that links to community channels… | ||
| Ambient Q+A | IstioCon 2023 | 2023-09-25 |
Ambient mode replaces per-pod sidecars with a node-local proxy plus shared Waypoint Envoys and claims orders‑of‑magnitude resource savings; early tests report… | ||
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | IstioCon 2023 | 2023-09-25 |
Istio announces CNCF graduation and a new Istio Certified Associate course, highlights a 32% uptick in first-time contributors for 2023, and promotes the… | ||
| Lightning Talk: One Click Istio Development Environments | Istio Day Europe 2023 | 2023-04-18 |
Istio contribution setup that actually works: demo shows creating a GitHub Codespace or a local Dev Container that includes istio build tools (kind, make… | ||
| Closing Remarks, Program Committee Members | Istio Day Europe 2023 | 2023-04-18 |
Event closes after the first ever in-person Istio event, notes continued Istio coverage at KubeCon with a service mesh track opens Thursday ~4 PM and a… | ||
| Welcome + Opening Remarks, Program Committee Members | Istio Day Europe 2023 | 2023-04-18 |
Welcome and logistics note that the half day program squeezes ten proposals per slot into a tight schedule, with a full Istio kiosk at K14 and Platinum sponsor… | ||
| Network Security at Scale: L3 Through L7 at Splunk | CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2023 | 2023-02-01 |
Splunk runs about 35 clusters across AWS and GCP with one VPC per cluster, uses public/internal NLBs plus Transit Gateways and Aviatrix for a flat L3 fabric… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Service Mesh Maturity: Are We There Yet? | ServiceMeshCon North America 2022 | 2022-10-25 |
Panelists compare concrete progress: Kubernetes traffic routing converges on the Gateway API (GAMMA) so Ingress and mesh routing share one model; many teams… | ||
| Simplifying Service Mesh Operations with Flux and Flagger | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 | 2022-05-16 |
Service mesh upgrades are automated using GitOps: Flux + Flagger automate control- and data-plane upgrades by opening pull requests when a new Istio version… | ||
| Service Mesh War Stories - Lessons Learned the Hard Way | ServiceMeshCon North America 2021 | 2021-10-12 |
Panel boils down to concrete lessons: service meshes solve specific problems but add maintenance costs, upgrades are hard and running years‑old Istio is risky… | ||
| Service Mesh - The New Single Point of Failure | ServiceMeshCon North America 2020 | 2020-11-17 |
Comparison of concrete choices and tools: Istio consolidates complexity into a monolithic control plane and removes Mixer by moving policy into Envoy via… | ||
| Making Sense of the Mesh: A Conceptual Model for Service Mesh Topolog... | ServiceMeshCon 2019 | 2019-11-18 |
Defines service mesh as a control interface over the existing web of services and gives a practical model: three scaling dimensions — control plane, clusters… | ||
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