William Morgan

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William Morgan

William Morgan is the co-founder and CEO of Buoyant, creators of Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he helped move Twitter from monolith to microservices. He was a software engineer at Powerset, Microsoft, and Adap.tv and a research scientist at MITRE.

Articles by this author:

June 22, 2026

Announcing Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd 2.20: Automated trust anchor rotation, Windows VM support, rate-limit-aware load balancing, and more

November 5, 2025

Introducing MCP support for Linkerd

October 30, 2025

Announcing Linkerd Enterprise 2.19: Windows service mesh, post-quantum cryptography, supply chain security, FIPS 140-3, and a new on-cluster dashboard

April 23, 2025

Announcing Linkerd 2.18: Battlescars, lessons learned, and preliminary Windows support

March 14, 2025

Why Service Level Objectives (SLOs) Matter for Kubernetes

March 14, 2025

The Trouble with Topology Aware Routing, Part II: Introducing High Availability, Zone-Aware Load Balancing

March 14, 2025

The trouble with Topology Aware Routing: Sacrificing reliability in the name of cost savings

March 14, 2025

Welcome to the Linkerd party, Google Ventures!

March 14, 2025

SUSE/Rancher and Buoyant team up to provide secure edge deployments

March 14, 2025

The Linkerd Enthusiast’s Guide to Kubecon NA 2018

March 14, 2025

Production-ready service mesh: Ensuring Linkerd can run in any Kubernetes environment

March 14, 2025

Introducing pod-based pricing for Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd

March 14, 2025

Linkerd Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

March 14, 2025

Linkerd Forever

March 14, 2025

Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2021

March 14, 2025

Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon NA 2019

March 14, 2025

Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021

March 14, 2025

Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Virtual

March 14, 2025

Linkerd and the Gateway API

March 14, 2025

Meeting security requirements, reducing latency, and migrating from Istio

March 14, 2025

Kubernetes 1.28: Revenge of the Sidecars?

March 14, 2025

Linkerd and the November 2022 OpenSSL vulnerabilities

March 14, 2025

Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 Roundup

March 14, 2025

eBPF, sidecars, and the future of the service mesh

March 14, 2025

Cool! Buoyant is a Gartner Cool Vendor!

March 14, 2025

Some clarifications and updates on the Linkerd 2.15 stable release announcement

March 14, 2025

Buoyant and Benchmark

March 14, 2025

Announcing Linkerd Enterprise

March 14, 2025

Announcing Linkerd 2.17: Egress, Rate Limiting, and Federated Services

March 14, 2025

Announcing Linkerd 2.16! Metrics, retries, and timeouts for HTTP and gRPC routes; IPv6 support; policy audit mode; VM workload automation; and lots more