Explore the latest developments in Linkerd, a popular CNCF-hosted service mesh project, in this 20-minute conference talk by William Morgan and Tarun Pothulapati from Buoyant, Inc. Gain insights into Linkerd's functionality, its comparison with other service meshes, and recent feature additions including seamless multi-cluster support and TCP mutual TLS. Discover performance benchmarks, upcoming releases, and learn how to contribute to this rapidly evolving project. Delve into Linkerd's design philosophy, architecture, and its underlying micro-proxy, Linkerd2-proxy, while understanding its advantages over alternatives like Istio.