







This new edition of the Istio service mesh can be run without sidecars, simplifying deployments and, in some cases, even reducing latency.
How to Reduce Istio Sidecar CPU Usage
Practical strategies to reduce CPU consumption of Istio Envoy sidecar proxies for cost-efficient mesh operations.

From sidecars to sidecarless: Tracing the evolution of service mesh technologies with Istio and Cilium
Learn how technologies like Istio Ambient and Cilium revolutionize microservices networking, offering unprecedented capabilities in traffic management, observability, and security.

What Istio Got Wrong: Learnings from the Last Seven Years of Service Mesh - C. Posta, L. Ryan

Alibaba Cloud claims K8s service meshes are resource hogs
SIGCOMM 2024: Built its own replacement – Canal Mesh – that it says leaves Google's Istio and Ambient eating dust

Seeed-Solution/MeshClaw
Bring AI to the Mesh — OpenClaw plugin for Meshtastic LoRa · No Internet Required
Review: AWS App Mesh – A service mesh for EC2, ECS, and EKS
It seems to me like everyone is talking about service meshes these days - definitely a hot topic in the world of containers a...

Add Cloud Run example with Cloud Endpoints (ESPv2) sidecar by timburks · Pull Request #20 · apigee-apihub-demo/animals
Using Cloud Run sidecars allows us to make stunning simplifications to the documented recommendations for using Cloud Endpoints with Cloud Run, which previously required a multi-step process includ...
eBPF and Kubernetes: Little Helper Minions for Scaling Microservices - Daniel Borkmann, Cilium
Mesh - Be more thoughtful with the people in your network.
Mesh is a beautiful rolodex and CRM for iPhone, Mac, Windows, and web, built automatically to help you manage your personal and professional relationships.

AlterEgo
Introducing AlterEgo, the first near-telepathic interface, designed to make technology as intuitive as using your inner voice.

GRPC Delivers on the Promise of a Proxyless Service Mesh
With the newest edition of the the gRPC protocol, Microservices-based systems will no longer need separate stand-alone service mesh sidecars, noted Megan Yahya, Google's product manager for GRPC, in her talk at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon EU[ earlier this month.

Meshtastic
An open source, off-grid, decentralized mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

Kenton Varda on Twitter / X
Dynamic Workers are now in Open Beta, all paid Workers users have access.Secure sandboxes that start ~100x faster than a container and use 1/10 the memory, so you can start one up on-demand to handle one AI chat message and then throw it away.Agents should interact with the…— Kenton Varda (@KentonVarda) March 24, 2026