One of the most important pieces of any modern web application is the network. As applications become more distributed, it becomes crucial to reason about the network and its behavior in order to understand how a system will behave. Service meshes are more and more frequently proposed as a means of tackling this problem. If you’re not familiar with meshes, Matt Klein has a great intro to them, and Christian Posta has a great series on Patterns with Envoy.
Fundamentally, modern apps benefit from networking patterns like meshes for three reasons:
- Scale: At the scale of most modern web applications, your traffic is a thing you manage. …
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