Coffee and Open Source with William Morgan

In this episode of Coffee and Open Source, host Isaac Levin sits down with William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant and co-creator of Linkerd, the first service mesh for Kubernetes. The conversation spans the evolution of the cloud native ecosystem, from the early days of Linux to the modern complexities of microservices and platform engineering. William shares the raw, behind-the-scenes journey of building a sustainable business around open source, including the controversial decision to move toward a commercial stable release model to ensure the long-term health and maintenance of Linkerd.

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