Envoy
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
1warn against
Jan 9, 2026first mention
Oct 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I route requests for an upstream host (like stripe) through Envoy as a mitm proxy”
Caveats and dissent
“Envoy being written in C++ has always given me a gut feeling to avoid Envoy.”
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From the makers not counted in the ranking
“we developed the Postgres plugin for Envoy”
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Data: envoy.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“Envoy being written in C++ has always given me a gut feeling to avoid Envoy.”
“It builds around https://envoyproxy.io.”
“Envoy bounces it without passing the request through to the backend.”
“behind a customized Envoy proxy doing application-layer encryption without PKI/TLS”
“I route requests for an upstream host (like stripe) through Envoy as a mitm proxy”