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Recently I wrote a piece for DZone and their Migrating to Microservices Report on the challenges of adopting service mesh in an enterprise organization. One of the first things we tackle in that piece is “whether or not you should go down the path of adopting a service mesh” Here’s what I said:
Start with an answer of “no”. If you’re just getting started with microservices and a handful of services, make sure you have the foundational pieces in place first. Microservices and its associated infrastructure are an optimization enabling you to make changes to your application faster. You can make a lot of strides toward going faster without a service mesh. You may even want some of the goodness that a service mesh brings without all of the complexity. Check out something like Gloo, an API Gateway built on Envoy proxy.