William Morgan articles

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William Morgan
Core maintainer of Linkerd and co-founder of Buoyant. @wm
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What is a service mesh anyways? 

The service mesh may sound complex, but at its heart, it’s a very simple idea: a set of network proxies that transparently run alongside microservices, implementing reliability, observability, and security features by measuring and manipulating inter-service (“east-west”) traffic.