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Introducing Conduit – open-source service mesh for Kubernetes

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Re: Introducing Conduit – open-source service mesh for Kubernetes

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But what in the hell is it? If your product is so revolutionary it defines a new market segment, you might want to bring the people with the money people up to speed.

Typically a mesh is a set of proxies that are colocated with each service you deploy. The proxies facilitate service discovery and secure communication with other services. They abstract this functionality such that each service doesn't have to individually (and poorly) reinvent that wheel. Your service would connect to database:5432, but instead of going straight to the database it goes to a proxy and the proxy has…

I just force every application to use a standard reliable transport library. Didn't realize I built a service mesh startup by accident...
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