Be Like Switzerland: 6 New Service Mesh Standards

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/ For the past few years, engineers working in the rapidly emerging realm of https://www.nginx.com/resources/glossary/service-mesh/ have rolled their eyes at media references to the “service mesh wars.” For better or worse, service meshes aren’t diplomatic.

A particular case in point: Workload data is now poorly standardized, which creates problems in building standardized management tools for service meshes.

Today, there is a wide variance in protocol support among service meshes, which complicates swapping one service mesh for another.

For example, some applications use https://grpc.io/ for specific communications needs, but not all service meshes support full observability of gRPC processes.

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