If you’re into microservices, then you might’ve heard about these two terms multiple times. Often people get confused between the two. In this article, I’m going to talk about service meshes and API gateways in detail and discuss when to use what.

Network Layers Refresher

Before diving into service meshes and API gateways, let’s revisit the network layers. The following is the OSI network layer model:

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