Service Meshes: Istio, Linkerd - or No Mesh at All?

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Compares Istio (Envoy-based) and Linkerd (own proxy) with concrete tradeoffs: Envoy proxy brings many features and customization, Linkerd prioritizes simplicity and performance; control plane plus sidecar proxies add CPU/memory and latency (Istio cites ~3 ms) and more YAML (example: ~10 lines in Linkerd vs ~30 in Istio for a traffic split). Shows Kiali, Prometheus/Grafana/Jaeger integration, features like routing, canary/mirroring, retries/circuit‑breaking, chaos injection, and mTLS; contrasts using libraries (resilience4j) or stripped-down mesh vs full mesh.

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" chapters (8)

1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:25What is a service mesh? What problems does it try to solve?
3. 5:46Service mesh implementations
4. 10:42Service mesh features
5. 22:22Service mesh challenges
6. 26:05Do You need a service mesh?
7. 29:02Conclusion
8. 32:21Outro

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