What’s the big deal with service meshes? Think of them as SDN at Layer 7

A technical yet demystifying dive into networking tech you can’t avoid

Systems Approach  I remember when I first heard about Service Meshes in 2017, and wondering what the big deal was. Building cloud applications as a graph of microservices was commonplace, and telcos were hard at work inventing yet other ways to chain together virtualized network functions. Service graphs, service chains, service meshes … how many ways do we really need to talk about composing complex systems from a collection of smaller components?…