Deciphering the Difference Between a Service Mesh and API Gateway
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13 min readJul 21, 2020
In a microservices architecture, apps trade the rigidity and stability of the call stack for the flexibility and chaos of the network. Concerns such as latency, outage retries, security, and traceability that were not a concern with a call stack become a concern with a service call. Service mesh is a pattern that has arisen to take these concerns out of the hands of coders so…