A service mesh adds infrastructure-level networking capabilities to microservices. Sidecar proxies handle mTLS encryption, traffic routing, retries, circuit breaking, and distributed tracing. Istio and Linkerd are popular implementations. Consider a service mesh when microservices complexity grows.
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