Without wishing to generalise, reviewers prefer covering debut albums. Introducing a fresh artist’s music to a new group of potential followers provides a mild fillip for the writer who can say that they have been on board from the start.| a closer listen
We have covered releases by both William Tyler (as recently as 23rd April this year) and Kieran Hebden (as Four Tet), but even so, this is a surprising collaboration that originally appeared on the single “Darkness, Darkness” / “No Services”| a closer listen
Evolve Velvet arrives as Excite Audio’s latest foray into intuitive, sample-based synthesis—offering producers and musicians an affordable way to unlock lush, expressive sounds for everything from ambient pieces to cinematic scores and chill beats. With over 250 vintage-inspired sound sources and a quad-layer engine at its heart, Velvet is crafted to get pro-quality textures down fast, yet always invites deeper exploration. The post Evolve Velvet by Excite Audio – First Impressions appe...| AudioNewsRoom (ANR)
The music is calm, the cover is calm, the effect is calm. After releasing four singles over the course of spring, Harbors (Hollie Kenniff & Goldmund) is releasing When We Are Free in the heart …| a closer listen
Listen to 82 hours of groundbreaking ambient radio from the legendary St. Giga's "Tide of Sound." File under: the internet is wonderful... Here's a recent discovery that will likely take us years to fully digest: Nearly 82 hours of "Tide of Sound," a 24-hour program on the experimental Japanese ambient radio station St. Giga, are available to listen on Archive.com. Founded in 1990 by Hiroshi Yokoi, St. GIGA was a high-...| In Sheeps Clothing
Istio 1.27 adds alpha ambient multicluster support, extending ambient's familiar lightweight, modular architecture to deliver secure connectivity, discovery and load balancing across clusters.| Istio
Tament is a personal translation, an audio diary of sounds created and heard. Glinca calls it “the audio of the everyday.” The timbre is warm and welcoming: the tenderness of thumb pi…| a closer listen
Time is a Succession of Such Shapes, declares Loula Yorke. But what shapes? The answers can be found within this double disc, which includes a hard copy of June’s exquisite The Book of Comm…| a closer listen
One feels compelled to read the news in order to stay informed, but the news can be overwhelming. The North Yorkshire coast offers a different kind of news: time and tide, bird and brood, beach an…| a closer listen
Over the next 12 months, we will focus on improving parity between sidecar mode and ambient mode, providing a supported path for sidecar users to migrate to the ambient data plane when they are ready. We will also revamp our contributor experience, simplifying the process for proposing and implementing new features, and giving recognition to our most valuable contributors. We plan to grow our ecosystem by adding or updating Istio’s integration to various popular cloud native projects and bu...| Istio Blog
Istio’s ambient mode splits the service mesh into two distinct layers: Layer 7 processing (the “waypoint proxy”), which remains powered by the traditional Envoy proxy; and a secure overlay (the “zero-trust tunnel” or “ztunnel”), which is a new codebase, written from the ground up in Rust. It is our intention that the ztunnel project be safe to install by default in every Kubernetes cluster, and to that end, it needs to be secure and performant. We comprehensively demonstrated zt...| Istio Blog
Encryption in transit is a baseline requirement for almost all Kubernetes environments today, and forms the foundation of a zero-trust security posture. However, the challenge with security is that it doesn’t come without a cost: it often involves a trade-off between complexity, user experience, and performance. While most Cloud Native users will know of Istio as a service mesh, providing advanced HTTP functionality, it can also serve the role of providing a foundational network security la...| Istio Blog
We are proud to announce that Istio’s ambient data plane mode has reached General Availability, with the ztunnel, waypoints and APIs being marked as Stable by the Istio TOC. This marks the final stage in Istio’s feature phase progression, signaling that ambient mode is fully ready for broad production usage. Ambient mesh — and its reference implementation with Istio’s ambient mode — was announced in September 2022. Since then, our community has put in 26 months of hard work and coll...| Istio Blog
Today, Istio’s revolutionary new ambient data plane mode has reached Beta. Ambient mode is designed for simplified operations, broader application compatibility, and reduced infrastructure cost. It gives you a sidecar-less data plane that’s integrated into your infrastructure, all while maintaining Istio’s core features of zero-trust security, telemetry, and traffic management. Ambient mode was announced in September 2022. Since then, our community has put in 20 months of hard work and ...| Istio Blog
The Istio project announced ambient mesh - its new sidecar-less dataplane mode in 2022, and released an alpha implementation in early 2023. Our alpha was focused on proving out the value of the ambient data plane mode under limited configurations and environments. However, the conditions were quite limited. Ambient mode relies on transparently redirecting traffic between workload pods and ztunnel, and the initial mechanism we used to do that conflicted with several categories of 3rd-party Con...| Istio Blog
There are 2 deployment modes for Istio: ambient mode and sidecar mode. The former is still on the way, the latter is the classic one. Therefore, the coexistence of ambient mode and sidecar mode should be a normal deployment form and the reason why this blog may be helpful for Istio users. Background In the architecture of modern microservices, communication and management among services is critical. To address the challenge, Istio emerged as a service mesh technology. It provides traffic cont...| Istio Blog
In Istio’s new ambient mode, the istio-cni component running on each Kubernetes worker node is responsible for redirecting application traffic to the zero-trust tunnel (ztunnel) on that node. By default it relies on iptables and Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) overlay tunnels to achieve this redirection. We have now added support for an eBPF-based method of traffic redirection. Why eBPF Although performance considerations are essential in the implementation of Istio am...| Istio Blog
Istio ambient service mesh was launched in Sept 2022 in an experimental branch, introducing a new data plane mode for Istio without sidecars. Through collaboration with the Istio community, across Google, Solo.io, Microsoft, Intel, Aviatrix, Huawei, IBM and others, we are excited to announce that Istio ambient mesh has graduated from the experimental branch and merged to Istio’s main branch! This is a significant milestone for ambient mesh, paving the way for releasing ambient in Istio 1.18...| Istio Blog
We recently announced Istio’s new ambient mode, which is a sidecar-less data plane for Istio and the reference implementation of the ambient mesh pattern. As stated in the announcement blog, the top concerns we address with ambient mesh are simplified operations, broader application compatibility, reduced infrastructure costs and improved performance. When designing the ambient data plane, we wanted to carefully balance the concerns around operations, cost, and performance while not sacrifi...| Istio Blog
On a record-breaking 106F/41C afternoon this June, I walked by Carvel Ice Cream and saw something that looked like this album cover: a dairy product that had just given up. Fortunately, no real ic…| a closer listen
While preparing to release her new album, Time is a Succession of Such Shapes (August 6), Loula Yorke has provided fans with a delicious first taste. The Book of Commonplace is as personal as they…| a closer listen
If the album title looks slightly but not completely familiar, it’s because we reviewed Almost Home If I’m Still Alive last year. That LAAPS LP included Dalton Alexander’s entire…| a closer listen
To many, the notion of frailty will immediately evoke sorrow, suggesting something diminished, a back bent toward the drawing down of a life. But its richness of meaning can also unfurl as layers o…| a closer listen
Four continents, seven tracks, eight guest stars, twenty-two minutes of music: Worlds: Collide is a crash course in ambience, the tonal opposite of the 1951 sci-fi film it references. The music sh…| a closer listen
We love Clay Pipe Music’s Mini CD series, and the latest entry is a beautiful 20-minute piece by label founder Frances Castle, recording as The Hardy Tree. Castle is also responsible for the …| a closer listen
The Tinnitus Chorus is the second tinnitus-themed album we’ve reviewed this year, following Lola de la Mata’s Oceans on Azimuth. de la Mata had been advised to abandon her musical care…| a closer listen
23 musical ideas in 23 tracks spanning 23 minutes, recorded in 2023 and released on 23 July in a limited edition of 23 copies, each containing one of 23 photos: the theme brings to mind 23 pairs of…| a closer listen
What is ambient music for? Some might say ambient music is meant to be played in the background. Others say it is meant to help listeners to relax. A third form of ambient music offers something …| a closer listen
Introducing the new destination oriented waypoint proxy for simplicity and scalability.| Istio
