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Why service meshes emerged Cloud applications started small and monolithic, managed in teams, but as complexity grew, microservices spread out across the infrastructure. This shift brought challenges: service discovery, resiliency, disaster recovery,...

Problem: Fat Microservices: In a typical microservices architecture, each service should ideally focus on a single responsibility. However, in practice, we often encounter "fat microservices"—services that take on more than just their core business l...
