Daily Term: Service Mesh

Service Mesh

A Service Mesh is an infrastructure layer that handles communication between services in a microservices architecture. It provides features like load balancing, retries, timeouts, and monitoring without requiring changes to application code. Tools like Istio or Linkerd deploy a sidecar proxy alongside each service to manage traffic, offering observability and reliability. Service meshes simplify microservices management but introduce additional complexity and potential performance overhead.

Date: 2025-05-26