In this last episode of Kubernetes Bytes Season 2, Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner dive into Service Mesh. You will learn all about the benefits of Service Mesh, how it helps reduce overhead for developers, the different deployment models (sidecar and Ambient Mesh), and the challenges and benefits for each.
News:

Trilio raises $17M - https://trilio.io/resources/funding-and-executive-update
Snyk raises $196.5M at $7.4B valuation - https://snyk.io/news/snyk-closes-196-5-million-series-g-funding-at-7-4-billion-valuation/
Blocks and Files - Kubernetes Storage Tests Update -  https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/12/15/ondat-beats-pures-portworx-in-container-storage-tests/

Links / Background:

https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/definition/service-mesh
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/microservices/what-is-a-service-mesh
https://linkerd.io/what-is-a-service-mesh/
https://kublr.com/blog/implementing-a-service-mesh-with-istio-to-simplify-microservices-communication/
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/istio-ambient-explained/9781098142698/ch01.html
https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh
https://youtu.be/6zDrLvpfCK4
https://youtu.be/16fgzklcF7Y