# Service Mesh

> Service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication in microservices architectures. It provides traffic management, mutual TLS security, observability, policy enforcement, and resilience features without requiring changes to application code. Key impleme...

This is the **Service Mesh** topic area of [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) — a network of focused knowledge bases drawn from 16 years of independent API research by Kin Lane. Browse all areas at https://apievangelist.com/areas/.

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