About the Authors

Lee Calcote is an innovative product and technology leader, passionate about empowering engineers with efficient and effective solutions. As the founder of Layer5, he’s at the forefront of the cloud native movement. Open source, advanced, and emerging technologies have been a consistent focus through Lee’s tenure at SolarWinds, Seagate, Cisco, and Schneider Electric. An advisor, author, and speaker, Lee is active in the community as a Docker Captain, Cloud Native Ambassador, and Google Summer of Code Mentor.

Zack Butcher is a founding engineer at Tetrate and a core contributor to the Istio project. He’s always been drawn to hard problems, from developing web applications for IE6 to working on service management, access control, and the central resource hierarchy for Google Cloud Platform. Tetrate is a small company, and he wears many hats there, including system architecture, sales, writing, and speaking.