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Service Mesh Ultimate Guide: Managing Service-to-Service Communications in the Era of Microservices and Cloud
This article aims to answer pertinent questions for software architects and technical leaders, such as: what is a service mesh; do I need a service mesh; how do I evaluate the differing service mesh offerings. In software architecture, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for facilitating service-to-service communications between microservices, often using a sidecar proxy.

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Service Mesh for Microservices
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