One of the shifts occurring in IT under the banner of digital transformation is the breaking down of large, monolithic applications into microservices—small, discrete units of functionality—that run ...

A service mesh is an emerging architecture for dynamically linking to one another the chunks of server-side applications -- most notably, the microservices -- that collectively form an application.

What Is a Service Mesh? A service mesh introduces an infrastructure layer that provides observability, reliability, and security features. It is usually implemented as scalable network proxies ...

Applications that rely on microservices put demands on data-center infrastructure and personnel, but the service mesh can optimize routing requests between microservices without constant human ...

The rise of containers has led to the microservices paradigm, where software is developed and deployed as fine-grained services. Multiple services work in tandem to deliver the expected functionality ...

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If you’re like most security pros, chances are pretty good that you’re starting to get frustrated with microservices a little bit, or maybe a lot. Microservice architectures — that is, architectures ...

Only a few years ago, when we talked about infrastructure we meant physical infrastructure: servers, memory, disks, network switches, and all the cabling necessary to connect them. I used to have ...

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Co-founder of Tetrate and the co-creator of Istio and gRPC projects, Varun wants to bring positive change to the world through technology. Businesses are discovering that app modernization in a ...

There's nothing new about mesh-networking technology. What is new is that mesh networking is finally cheap enough to be deployed in both homes and small businesses. Mesh networking deals with that ...