Service Mesh (Why and When?)

This is a seven part series on service mesh. Starting with fundamentals, then hands-on with istio, resilience dynamic-routing and canary rollouts, API-Gateway, Security, obserability/tracing, and finally service-mesh at scale

This article briefly discusses the evolution of microservices, challenges of a microservice architecture, and how service mesh solves them.

Taken from experfy

A fallacy is an incorrect assumption. Developers new to microservices can be guilty of these fallacies. Coined by L. Peter Deutsch as Fallacies of Distributed Computing.

The fallacies are: 
1. The network is reliable.
2. Latency is zero.
3. Bandwidth is infinite.
4. The network is secure.
5. Topology doesn't change.
6. There is one administrator.
7. Transport cost is zero.
8. The network is homogeneous.

A service mesh provides a transparent and language-independent way to flexibly and easily automate networking, security, and observation functions. In essence, it decouples development and operations for services.
Taken from InfoQ Magazine:Service Meshes

Distributed tracing enables users to track a request through mesh that is distributed across multiple services. This allows a deeper understanding about request latency, serialization and parallelism via visualization.

In deciding whether or not a service mesh makes sense for you and your organization, start by asking yourself two questions: how complex is your service topology and how will you integrate a service mesh into your software development lifecycle (SDLC)?

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ADIL RAFIQ

Bikes, Tea, Sunsets in that order. Software Engineer who fell in love with cloud-native infrastructure.