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title: "A Service Mesh Rollout That Was Worth It | Coming Soon"
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# A Service Mesh Rollout That Was Worth It

Case StudyScheduled for 20 October 2026

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Istio across 34 services on EKS: what mTLS, traffic shifting and free golden signals actually bought us, what the sidecars cost in memory and upgrade pain, and the two answers that would have made the whole thing a mistake.

ArchitectureDevOpsCloud Computing

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