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Service Meshes & Envoy Proxy Traffic Routing

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Sidecars and Service Meshes

Instead of hardcoding retry logic, TLS certificates, and rate limiting inside your service code, we route traffic through sidecar proxies (like Envoy) managed by a control plane (like Istio).

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What is a sidecar proxy?

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A helper proxy deployed alongside the main application container to handle network routing, security, and logging.

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What is a primary benefit of using a Service Mesh?

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A helper proxy deployed alongside the main application container to handle network routing, security, and logging.

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