The 'sidecar debate' has been driving me crazy because the 'sidecar-less movement' has not been driven by a sidecar issue but a proxy bloat one. Sidecars are lightweight, but if you add a huge proxy with a massive footprint, yeah, your sidecar architecture will introduce an overhead problem.

I frequently get asked at KubeCon when Linkerd is going to launch its Ambient version. We have no plans to, because the Linkerd microproxy is, well, micro-small.

So glad that my teammate u/Flynn_ published The Story Behind the Great Sidecar Debate, a blog post that will hopefully exonerate the real victim in this discussion: the innocent sidecar!