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on how to deploy in Istio and standalone Envoy</p></li><li><p>Abstractions to allow for other Wasm runtimes to be used, including a &lsquo;null&rsquo; runtime which
simply compiles the extension natively into Envoy &mdash; very useful for testing and debugging</p></li></ul><p>Using Wasm for extending Envoy brings us several key benefits:</p><ul><li><p>Agility: Extensions can be delivered and reloaded at runtime using the Istio control plane.
This enables a fast develop → test → release cycle for e