Service mesh
Meaning in software engineering, with examples
In software engineering, service mesh means: An infrastructure layer that manages service-to-service communication, often adding routing, security, and monitoring features.
In Turkish: servis ağı
How it is used
Used in microservice systems to handle traffic control, mutual authentication, retries, and observability without placing all logic in application code.
Example sentences
After adopting a service mesh, the platform team enforced mTLS between internal APIs without changing each service individually.
Here the term refers to shared infrastructure handling communication policy centrally instead of requiring separate code in every service.
The service mesh exposed latency metrics that helped us see one checkout dependency retrying far too often.
In this sentence, the term means the network layer also provides observability data about traffic between services.
Common collocations
- deploy a service mesh
- service mesh architecture
- service mesh policy
Related terms
More terms: APIs, Networking and Security
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