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Kubernetes cluster diagram showing sidecar proxies attached to service pods with traffic routing rules and mTLS connections

Service Mesh Fundamentals: Istio and Linkerd in Practice

Understand service mesh architecture through practical Istio and Linkerd examples covering traffic management, mutual TLS, observability, and circuit breaking, with honest guidance on when a service mesh adds value versus unnecessary complexity.

Jul 22, 2024·4 min read

Architecture

Service Mesh Fundamentals: Infrastructure-Level Networking

A service mesh moves networking concerns like retries, circuit breaking, mTLS, and observability out of application code and into the infrastructure layer.

Sep 21, 2020·3 min read

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