The purpose of this book is to walk you through the service mesh architecture. We will cover three main open source service mesh providers: Istio, Linkerd, and Consul. First of all, we will talk about how the evolution of technology led to Service Mesh. In this chapter, we will cover the application development journey from monolithic to microservices.
The technology landscape that fueled the growth of the monolithic framework is based on the technology stack that became available 20+ years ago. As hardware and software virtualization improved significantly, a new wave of innovation started with the adoption of microservices in 2011 by Netflix, Amazon, and other companies. This trend started by redesigning ...
