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		phlakaton on Nov 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Service Mesh: What Engineers Need to Know I was going to say re: "How is this different from an API Gateway?" – this was a lot harder a question for me to get my head around than William suggests, _because_ API Gateway vendors, I'm sure quite intentionally, have been positioning their stuff as service mesh solutions or alternatives, not as service mesh complements.

Bombthecat on Nov 25, 2019 [–]

Yeah... And they still do. I work in the api management field (vendors / software)

And I think it is more akin to have an aircraft carrier and the protection fleet of smaller ships..

You have your big api gateway with management, billing, governance (for B2b, b2c, b2b2c) and your service mesh.

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