Service Mesh Engineering: Building, Operating, and Scaling Modern Microservice Networks

By Robert U. Johnson

Service Mesh Engineering: Building, Operating, and Scaling Modern Microservice Networks is a practical guide to designing, deploying, and operating service meshes in modern cloud-native environments. It begins with the fundamentals of microservices networking and service mesh architecture, then builds toward the patterns, trade-offs, and operational practices that teams need to manage resilient, secure, and observable distributed systems at scale.

The book explores the inner workings of service mesh control and data planes, lifecycle management, traffic routing, resilience engineering, zero-trust security, and multi-cluster deployment strategies. Readers will gain a clear understanding of how service meshes compare with leading approaches such as Istio and Linkerd, and how to evaluate the right architecture for their platform, performance, and organizational needs.

Beyond core concepts, the book emphasizes real-world implementation: installation, automation, observability, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and integration with existing cloud-native tooling. With case studies, operational guidance, and forward-looking best practices, it equips architects, SREs, platform engineers, and developers with the knowledge to build, operate, and scale reliable microservice networks confidently.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H2H9TNGK
• ISBN13: 9798197673954
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"