Museum of Weird Bugs: Our Favorites From 8 Years of Service Mesh Debugging

This conference talk explores the most fascinating, unusual, and memorable bugs encountered and fixed in Linkerd over an 8-year period of service mesh debugging. Dive into Alex Leong's collection of peculiar bugs from Buoyant, learning how these issues manifested in production systems, the troubleshooting approaches taken, and the sometimes complex journey to resolution. Discover the challenges of constructing useful bug reports and gain insights into the debugging process for service mesh technologies. The presentation shares valuable lessons learned from real-world debugging scenarios that have shaped Linkerd's development and reliability over nearly a decade of service.