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Re:Service Mesh Use Cases by jagged-chisel on Saturday February 11, 2023 @09:47AM (#34752728)
Most of my programming peers want to focus on solving product-related problems rather than authe, authn, tls config, failover, throttling, discovery…

We want to automate everything not related to the code we want to write. Service meshes sound like a good way to do that.

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Re:Service Mesh Use Cases by Scubabear68 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @10:37AM (#34753256)
Right - by why not use something like an API gateway then?
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Re:Service Mesh Use Cases by steviesands on Saturday February 11, 2023 @11:46AM (#34753905)
API gateways are primarily used for HTTP traffic coming from clients external to your backend services eg. an iOS device (hence the term 'gateway' vs. 'mesh'). I don't think they support thrift or grpc (at least aws doesn't, not sure about other providers). https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/
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Re:Service Mesh Use Cases by alasdair_ on Saturday February 11, 2023 @06:40PM (#34757677)
Google cloud supports grpc on their api gateway: https://cloud.google.com/api-gateway/docs/grpc-overview
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Re:Service Mesh Use Cases by pbalau on Saturday February 11, 2023 @01:53PM (#34755093)
That can work, but it means you simply outsourced the problem to AWS. It's not a bad idea per se, but it means your service needs to talk, in some way, http.

You could use the service mesh thing from AWS, along with cognito jwts, for authenticatetion and authorization

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Re:Service Mesh Use Cases by Too on Sunday February 12, 2023 @01:08AM (#34760336)
You can easily self host your own proxy. I bet API gateway is just Nginx, Traefik or HAProxy under the hood anyway.
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