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Deciphering the hype of Service Mesh

Service Mesh is not a new topic anymore. Most of us in the industry are already familiar with it. There are also tons of article in the internet about its why and how. In my opinion, it has a significant influence on the application architecture. Here's a DevSecOps humor to start the discussion (and it will make sense as you read along).  This is part 1 of my 3 parts blog posts on Service Mesh. Part 1:   Deciphering the hype of Service Mesh Part 2:   Understanding The Ingress and The Mesh components of Service Mesh. Part 3:  Understanding the observability component of Service Mesh (TBD).  In this post, I am going approach Service Mesh from an application architecture point of view. I will also score some of its basic features on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 being the least important to me and 5 being the most important.  Table of contents: Common Q&As Features mTLS Service Discovery Meshing Ingress, Gateways etc Telemetries Enterprise products and offerings Implementing using Ta