Buoyant

Buoyant is a software company based in San Francisco, founded in 2015 by William Morgan and Oliver Gould, who previously worked at Twitter. The company specializes in cloud-native infrastructure, particularly in the service mesh category, and is known for creating and maintaining Linkerd, an open-source service mesh for Kubernetes platforms.

Buoyant's offerings focus on enhancing the performance and security of distributed applications without requiring changes to application code. Their flagship product, Linkerd, is recognized for its speed and security. Additionally, Buoyant provides Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd, a production-ready distribution with advanced security features, and Buoyant Cloud, an automated platform for managing the Linkerd control plane. The company targets B2B and SaaS enterprises that operate complex microservices architectures, serving engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, and DevOps teams.