Bio

Lin has been working on container and cloud-native technologies since 2014 from Docker to Kubernetes to Service Mesh. Lin has deep knowledge of Istio and Kubernetes and has extensive experience building and operating highly available cloud-native services. She is also an Istio maintainer, a member of the Istio steering committee and technical oversight committee. She is passionate about new technologies and loves to play with them. She is an IBM Master Inventor, holds 150+ patents issued with USPTO. She is a frequent speaker at leading cloud native conferences (KubeCon, ServiceMeshCon, ContainerCon, DockerCon etc) and has co-authored the Istio Explained book. She is also a popular guest speaker on various podcasts and an opinionated blogger. Recent Interviews: - Kubernetes Podcast from Google: https://twitter.com/KubernetesPod/status/1218268043954065408?s=20 - Jaxenter: Istio 1.5 – “We developed Istio to allow users to incrementally adopt features” https://jaxenter.com/istio-1-5-we-developed-istio-to-allow-users-to-incrementally-adopt-features-170547.html - NewStack Podcast - Why an IBM ‘Master Inventor’ Calls Istio Service Meshes ‘Storage Boxes’:https://thenewstack.io/why-an-ibm-master-inventor-calls-istio-service-meshes-storage-boxes/ - Istio, Wasm, and the Future of Service Mesh @ InfoQ Podcast: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/istio-wasm-service-mesh-future/ Recent Blogs: - Service Mesh is still hard blog, published at CNCF(https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/10/26/service-mesh-is-still-hard/) and TFiR(https://www.tfir.io/service-mesh-is-still-hard/). - Istio 1.8 focuses on usability and upgrades, published at IBM Developer blog(https://developer.ibm.com/components/istio/blogs/istio-1-8-release-blog/). - Istio 3-year anniversary reflection blog, published at SDTimes (https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/guest-view-5-reasons-to-be-excited-about-istios-future/) - Deploy external control plane blog, published at istio.io (https://istio.io/latest/blog/2020/new-deployment-model/) - 4 steps to debug your edge microservices in an Istio service mesh, published at IBM developer blog (https://developer.ibm.com/articles/4-steps-to-debug-your-edge-microservices-in-istio-service-mesh/) Recent Speaking Sessions: - Istiod from microservices to monolithic (https://2020.allthingsopen.org/sessions/istiod-from-microservices-to-monolithic/), All things Open 2020. - Istio simplified beyond single cluster, ServiceMeshCon NA 2020 (https://smcna20.sched.com/?iframe=no) - KubeCon When IAM hurts panel, KubeCon NA 2020. - KubeCon Tales of the edge panel, KubeCon NA 2020.