Understanding the Role of Service Mesh in Application Development

This chapter provides a detailed analysis of service mesh and its significance in large organizations like Netflix and Facebook. It explores the importance of observability, encryption, and authentication in service meshes and discusses the benefits of offloading encryption tasks to a sidecar proxy for seamless application development. The discussion covers the deployment of sidecar proxies, the use of Istio for traffic management within Kubernetes, and the challenges and considerations of implementing service meshes at scale.