The Truth About the Service Mesh Data Plane

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Considers the data plane as a spectrum from in-code libraries to sidecar proxy to shared gateway, recommends starting small (one gateway or a few sidecars) and measuring impact, shows concrete tools: Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, Consul and Solo.io Glue, demos compiling C++ to WebAssembly modules, pushing to GCR and hot‑loading them into Envoy to add response headers, warns of startup ordering and leaky abstractions (proxy not ready breaking app DB calls) and points to performance and operational tradeoffs.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 3:00Do you really need Service Mesh
3. 6:28Confusion in the Data Plane
4. 8:24The Truth About the Data Plane
5. 10:50When to Use the Data Plane
6. 20:59WebAssembly
7. 24:14Live Demo

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