Service meshes provide observability, security, and traffic management for microservices without application code changes. Istio and Linkerd are the leading options—both mature and production-ready, but with different philosophies. This guide compares them across complexity, performance, and feature sets. Service Mesh Architecture Comparison Matrix Feature Istio Linkerd Proxy Envoy Linkerd2-proxy (Rust) Resource Usage Higher Lower Complexity […]
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