November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
390 pages
10h 8m
English
The following diagram illustrates how an API Gateway and a service mesh can exist. As we discussed, there are also some overlapping features (such as circuit breakers), but it's important to understand that these two concepts are serving fundamentally different requirements, refer to the following image:

As shown in the preceding diagram, a service mesh is used alongside most of the service implementations as a sidecar, and it's independent of the business functionality of the services. An API Gateway hosts all the API services. An API Gateway may have inbuilt inter-service communication capabilities, ...
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