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September 11, 2023
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Service Mesh Overhead: Measuring Envoy Proxy Latency on Our Workload
The Istio / Envoy sidecar adds measurable latency. On p99 for our mix of RPCs, the overhead was 4 ms — acceptable for some services and not for others.
The Istio / Envoy sidecar adds measurable latency. On p99 for our mix of RPCs, the overhead was 4 ms — acceptable for some services and not for others.
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- service-mesh
- envoy
- istio
- latency
- kubernetes
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