What is a service mesh?

• Hystrix

  19 23,877 2.7 Java

  Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable.

  

When breaking up a monolithic app into microservices, the communication between these services becomes vital to the health and performance of the application. Technically, you could incorporate the features to manage this traffic directly into your application. This is what Twitter, Google, and Netflix did with massive internal libraries like Finagle, Stubby, and Hysterix.

• envoy

  67 23,886 10.0 C++

  Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

  

The choice of proxy is an implementation detail, and different service meshes rely on different proxies. Envoy Proxy is widely used whereas Linkerd uses its own purpose-built proxy called Linkerd-proxy. A matrix below compares the proxies used by popular open source service meshes.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• consul

  57 27,774 9.9 Go

  Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

  

Out of the number of service mesh solutions that exist, the most popular open source ones are: Linkerd, Istio, and Consul. Here at Koyeb, we are using Kuma.

• Finagle

  24 8,755 7.2 Scala

  A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system

  

When breaking up a monolithic app into microservices, the communication between these services becomes vital to the health and performance of the application. Technically, you could incorporate the features to manage this traffic directly into your application. This is what Twitter, Google, and Netflix did with massive internal libraries like Finagle, Stubby, and Hysterix.

• conduit

  33 10,345 9.9 Go

  Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.

  

Out of the number of service mesh solutions that exist, the most popular open source ones are: Linkerd, Istio, and Consul. Here at Koyeb, we are using Kuma.

• istio

  87 34,983 10.0 Go

  Connect, secure, control, and observe services.

  

Out of the number of service mesh solutions that exist, the most popular open source ones are: Linkerd, Istio, and Consul. Here at Koyeb, we are using Kuma.

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