Originally posted on the Solo.io blog As organizations adopt Envoy-based infrastructure like Istio to help solve challenges with microservices communication, they inevitably find themselves needing to customize some part of that infrastructure to fit within their organization’s constraints. WebAssembly (Wasm) has emerged as a safe, secure, and dynamic environment for platform extension. In the recent announcement of Istio 1.5, the Istio project lays the foundation for bringing WebAssembly t...