DevOps/CloudHigh signalAround since 2017
Service Mesh
Also written as Istio, Linkerd
Infrastructure that manages communication between microservices — routing, retries, encryption, and observability — without each individual service having to implement that logic itself.
Think of it like
Like giving every building on a campus the same professionally-installed intercom and security system, instead of each building wiring up its own from scratch.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Can't name a specific problem a service mesh solved for their team.
Senior sounds like
Can name the specific thing that got easier after adopting one.
Ask them
“What specific problem got easier for your team after adopting a service mesh?”