The Case Against Service Meshes: Istio 1.22.0 Overhead vs. Native K8s 1.32 Networking

After benchmarking 12 production-grade Kubernetes clusters across 3 cloud providers, Istio 1.22.0 added a median 47ms of p99 latency and 22% throughput reduction compared to native Kubernetes 1.32 networking for 1KB payloads. For 87% of the 142 engin...