Istio @Soloio_inc. More content at blog.howardjohn.info.
Joined December 2020
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Jun 9
I just open sourced my "Is this slop?" simple test
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howardjohn retweeted
13 Sep 2025
The open source, AI-native proxy, created by @soloio_inc to optimize connectivity, security and observability for AI agentic software, has joined the @linuxfoundation.
By @sjvn thenewstack.io/why-tech-gian…
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3 Sep 2025
The open source, AI-native proxy, created by @soloio_inc to optimize connectivity, security and observability for AI agentic software, has joined the @linuxfoundation.
By @sjvn thenewstack.io/why-tech-gian…
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6 Feb 2025
Today marks exactly 6 years from my first commit of a long journey to make @IstioMesh scale.
When I first started, a 100 pod mesh was a "big" mesh. Today, we can handle anything - 100 *million* pods and beyond!
Service mesh scalability is a solved problem.
Link 👇
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18 Nov 2024
Top KubeCon question: "Does ambient mesh scale?"
Yes, but a more useful question is "How much effort does it take to scale"?
blog.howardjohn.info/posts/s… covers this in depth.
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howardjohn retweeted
8 Nov 2024
Istio 1.24 is out today, and it's kind of a big deal.
istio.io/latest/news/release…
ALT Latest news: Fast, secure and simple: Istio's ambient mode is now Generally Available
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howardjohn retweeted
1 Nov 2024
cloudnativenow.com/contribut… Ambient mode — the next-generation architecture for Istio — more than just an incremental improvement to the sidecar-based architecture. #ambientmode #istio #kubecon #multicloud
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31 Oct 2024
The new compute is pretty slick... its a shame they are locked to only a few regions and any quota request is instantly denied even years after release.
30 Oct 2024
Live from the App Dev & Infrastructure #GoogleCloudSummit: Our AI Hypercomputer now includes Trillium TPUs in preview, Axion-powered C4A VMs in GA, and, coming soon, A3 Ultra VMs powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs!
More on these infrastructure innovations → goo.gle/3YKibP0
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31 Oct 2024
Powered by Gloo Ambient mesh, I was able to push through *410k requests per second*, with mTLS encryption and HTTP monitoring.
All served by a single 8-core CPU (on GCP).
ALT Dashboard showing 410,000 HTTP requests per second with a 100% success rate
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howardjohn retweeted
28 Oct 2024
indeed it is really fast :) github.com/kubernetes/kubern…
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howardjohn retweeted
22 Oct 2024
"Istio was able to deliver 56% more queries at 20% lower tail latency [than Cilium]. Taking into account the resources used, Istio processed 2178 queries per core, vs Cilium’s 1815, a 20% improvement."
istio.io/latest/blog/2024/am…
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11 Oct 2024
Made a tool to enable kubectl to use persistent connections: github.com/howardjohn/kubeco…. Cuts down command time by ~7x for me, and that is to the closest local AWS zone!
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howardjohn retweeted
1 Oct 2024
Amazing resource on @IstioMesh for helping debug ztunnel in Istio ambient mode / Ambient Mesh: github.com/istio/istio/wiki/…
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11 Sep 2024
One of the hardest thing for ambient adoption has been getting people to understand how easy it is to use.
Years of tricks and workarounds to make sidecars work can be thrown out since so many things "Just Work", but its hard to detach from the old ways.
11 Sep 2024
Customer calls with ambient users hit different... got off a call where the issue was, I quote, "After deploying ambient cluster-wide, nothing broke and there was no latency impact at all, so something must be off".
Nope... that's just how it works!
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11 Sep 2024
Customer calls with ambient users hit different... got off a call where the issue was, I quote, "After deploying ambient cluster-wide, nothing broke and there was no latency impact at all, so something must be off".
Nope... that's just how it works!
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howardjohn retweeted
19 Aug 2024
Managing egress traffic in @IstioMesh just got easier with ambient mode and Gloo Mesh! 🌐 Simplify your configuration and enhance functionality. Dive into our blog to learn more. #Istio #ServiceMesh #Kubernetes #GlooMesh #ambientmesh solo.io/blog/egress-gateways…
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howardjohn retweeted
14 Aug 2024
I just want mTLS on Kubernetes blog.howardjohn.info/posts/m… < is that too much to ask? @_howardjohn explores the options at your disposal.
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13 Aug 2024
This is one of those graphs that you double check over and over again before publishing, because it seems too good to be true... but its actually real.
ALT Graph showing performance benchmarking of the new Gloo HTTP Telemetry. While traditional approaches incur a major performance penalty, this approach comes with only a 1% overhead.
13 Aug 2024
Excited to share some of the work we have done to make Gloo the best way to run a service mesh! This one is a game changer IMO.
solo.io/blog/http-observabil…
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13 Aug 2024
Excited to share some of the work we have done to make Gloo the best way to run a service mesh! This one is a game changer IMO.
solo.io/blog/http-observabil…
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