# Envoy Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Envoy is an open-source, high-performance L7 proxy: it functions as a universal data plane for cloud-native service mesh architectures.

Envoy Proxy is the C++-based, high-performance edge and service proxy originally developed at Lyft. It is purpose-built for modern microservice architectures, typically deployed as a sidecar in a service mesh (e.g., Istio). The technology operates across L3/L4 and L7, providing critical traffic management features: advanced load balancing, automatic retries, and circuit breaking. Configuration is dynamic via the xDS API, allowing updates without restarts. With first-class support for HTTP/2 and gRPC, Envoy abstracts the network, delivering deep observability and a robust communication bus for large-scale distributed systems.

- Official technology site: https://www.envoyproxy.io/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Fast, Human-In-The-Loop Agents, built via traditional APIs](https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_13lhzPPWtwQ)

We'll walk through Arch - an intelligent gateway for agents - engineered with small LLMs that offer best-in-class intent routing, guardrails, fast function calling and observability capabilities, so that developers can focus on the stuff that matters: features and business logic. Arch is built by the team that built Envoy at Lyft and offered as an open source primitive for developers.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Seattle - December 2024 Meetup — 2024-12-12 — Seattle
- Public talk page: https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_13lhzPPWtwQ

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