Company intelligence
Buoyant
Creators of Linkerd. The next generation of networking security and reliability for Kubernetes.
Software Development
San Francisco, US
42 employees
Founded 2015
3 public signals
About Buoyant
Buoyant brings security, reliability, and efficiency to modern, cloud-native enterprise. The creators of the category-defining open source Linkerd service mesh, Buoyant allows organizations to build world-class security and reliability into their networks, including granular L7 authorization policy, zero-trust enforcement, cross-cluster failover, cost-aware multicluster routing, and more, without changing any application code and underlying networking configuration.
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Signals from Buoyant
3 published signals
Presence & Recognition
Buoyant is sponsoring DevOpsCon New York from September 29 to 30, 2026, featuring William Morgan and Phil Henderson speaking on self-hosting open-weight LLMs and microservices observability in Kubernetes.
Reported by Buoyant
Research & Knowledge
Buoyant published benchmark results comparing Linkerd, Istio, and Cilium for gRPC load balancing on Kubernetes.
Reported by Ehsan Shirazi
Products & Services
Buoyant cut AWS cross-AZ traffic in half by turning on HAZL, Linkerd's zone-aware load balancing, across a fleet of 20+ Kubernetes clusters.
Reported by Buoyant