Buoyant Wins Tech Ascension Award Recognizing Linkerd Service Mesh as Best Open Source DevOps Tool of 2020
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Buoyant, the creators of
Linkerd, today announced that Linkerd was named the Best Open Source DevOps Tool of 2020 by the
Tech Ascension Awards. This award recognizes the ability of Linkerd to address a core challenge faced by engineers building modern cloud native applications: adding and maintaining critical security, reliability, and observability features to their applications without changing code.
The pioneer of the service mesh category, Linkerd remains the fastest, smallest service mesh on the market. Its unique human-centric approach prioritizes simplicity, speed and security, in stark contrast to the complexity commonly associated with competitive service mesh solutions. With minimal resource consumption, Linkerd installs in minutes, requires zero configuration, and can be incrementally extended to the application one micros