Glossary term
What is Service mesh? Meaning for developers
Sidecar proxies that handle traffic between services. Example: Istio or Linkerd providing mTLS, retries and metrics.
Learn it properly · System DesignLesson 13: Reverse Proxy vs API GatewayReverse proxy, load balancer and API gateway get used interchangeably — NGINX is called all three. What each one is actually for, where authentication and rate limiting belong, the Backend-for-Frontend pattern, and when a gateway is overkill.