In this book, we are focusing on Istio, Linkerd, and Consul from the implementation perspective.
A service mesh implementation, such as Istio, takes away some of the responsibilities of developers and puts them in a dedicated layer so that they are consumable without writing any code. In other words, it frees up developers so that they can focus on business logic and places more responsibility in the hands of operational professionals.
This book is not about developing microservices, and so does not cover the persona of a developer.
Chapter 1, Monolithic Versus Microservices, provides a high-level overview of monolithic versus microservices-based applications. The evolution of service-oriented architecture to microservices-based ...
