
A case study in service mesh performance optimizationby: Ying ZhuIntroductionIn this article, we’ll showcase how we identified and addressed a service mesh performance problem at Airbnb, providing insights into the process of troubleshooting service mesh issues.BackgroundAt Airbnb, we use a microservices architecture, which requires efficient communication between services. Initially, we developed a homegrown service discovery system called Smartstack exactly for this purpose. As the company grew, however, we encountered scalability issues¹. To address this, in 2019, we invested in a modern service mesh solution called AirMesh, built on the open-source Istio software. Currently, over 90% of…
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