Leveraging Service Meshes as a New Network Layer
Sachin Ashok, P. Brighten Godfrey, Radhika Mittal · 2021
As modern cloud services have scaled out, applications have moved from relatively monolithic designs to highly modularized fleets of microservices that communicate among each other to perform application-level tasks. These microservices effectively form a network at the application layer, and service mesh frameworks have recently emerged to factor out microservices' common communication functionality.