Here's what I said about Sidecar at the the annual gRPC conference.

Control and monitor all of your application's network traffic.

Keep your IOs running with Podman Quadlets

Prefer Podman as an alternative to Docker, Nomad, and Kubernetes.

Implementing the gRPC Route Guide example with Sidecar

Use Bolt for IO internal storage and general data persistence.

Build and distribute IO binaries.

Distribute IO builds for MacOS using Homebrew.

Sidecar is a tiny Go package that can be used to make clients and servers that use the gRPC wire protocol.

Replace Hugo with a custom site builder.

RFC8555 is revolutionary, but it has some rough edges.

A decade of Envoy: from Lyft's debugging nightmare to the AI infrastructure era.

A lot of people are trying to sell you agents. What you really want is agency.

In the world of AI agents, the Envoy networking proxy consistently enforces governance and security across all agentic paths, and at scale.

A tool for calling XRPC APIs, automatically generated from Lexicon. - agentio/slink

The open source ladder is leaning on the wrong wall.

Build an AT Protocol PDS the hard way (from scratch).

How I use Bluesky to easily and securely preview a software product to users.

Commits that could get me committed.

Here’s how you can configure IO using its HCL-based configuration language.

It’s the cornerstone of identity on Bluesky. What could possibly go wrong?

Easily call XRPC APIs from your Go code and the command line.

A tool for calling XRPC APIs, automatically generated from Lexicon. - agentio/slink

Store IO state and temporary files in a standard location.

Use gcr.io/distroless and self-built Envoys to have more control and to reduce dependencies, vulnerabilites, and image size.

Since Envoy will always depend on libc, it seems reasonable for IO to also.

Here’s how you can configure IO using its HCL-based configuration language.

I love the ideas behind this lightweight distribution, but it’s challenging in practice.

Replace Connect with a new, simple, transparent Go gRPC library.

Do you really want to put that vendor code in your app?

Baggage-free gRPC for Go. . Contribute to agentio/sidecar development by creating an account on GitHub.

Exploring gRPC and connectrpc with a simple echo service.

IO doesn’t just manage gRPC APIs, gRPC makes IO go.

Remove integration with Google’s Service Infrastructure APIs.

Here’s how I self-host a gRPC-based web application with IO.

How I set up my Ubuntu laptops to run Nomad and Vault.

If you’re protecting your secrets with Vault, why are you handing them out to your applications? Let IO handle them instead.

How I set up my Ubuntu laptops to run Nomad and Vault.

Use github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/v3 for all JWT operations.

Keep third-party dependencies at a minimum.

No third-party SDKs are used by IO to call networked APIs.

Manage node configurations with Go and ssh.

Use Open Telemetry and Grafana for metrics, logging, and tracing.