Service Mesh

Category: infrastructure

A dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication in a microservices architecture.

Service mesh is the "network manager." It handles the complex logic of how microservices talk to each other—including encryption (mTLS), observability, and retry logic. It keeps the "business code" clean by abstracting away the "networking code."

Common Examples

• We implemented a service mesh to manage the encrypted mTLS traffic between our sensitive billing and quoting microservices.
• A service mesh provides the deep observability needed to debug complex service-to-service network performance issues in real-time.