Use Cases and System Design Examples

A service mesh costs real money and real operator time. So the last question is not how it works, but whether to adopt it at all. This lesson gives you the test, then shows the mesh doing two concrete jobs.

When a Mesh Pays for Itself

Four conditions make a mesh worth its cost.

• Many services, written in several languages, all calling each other.
• A rule that must hold everywhere, such as encryption between all services.
• Frequent canary releases, where a new version takes a small share of traffic first.