API Gateway to Service Mesh: Navigating a Changing Landscape
summary
Argues that a service mesh (side‑car proxies like envoy plus a control plane such as istio) actually implements traffic management, retries, circuit breakers, mTLS and distributed tracing inside the cluster, while traditional API gateway products (Kong, Apigee, nginx) keep developer portals, lifecycle, monetization and analytics at the edge. Recommends mesh for inter‑service concerns, gateway for external developer experience, and a toolkit approach (Prometheus, Swagger, Readme, Ambassador) tied by API‑driven config and healthy open‑source communities to survive rapid change.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 15:14Api Management Systems Market
- 17:57How Do I Pick an Api Management Gateway That Plays Nicely with Service Mesh
- 22:24Observability
- 30:57Api Management
- 34:48Api Driven Approaches
- 37:45Evolutionary Architecture
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