Microservices on Taubyte Blog/blog/tags/microservices/Recent content in Microservices on Taubyte BlogTaubyte Blog/blog/opengraph.jpg/blog/opengraph.jpgHugo -- 0.146.0en-usFri, 20 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000Service Mesh: The Sidecar Tax That Eats Your Memory/blog/posts/service-mesh-performance-fresser/Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000/blog/posts/service-mesh-performance-fresser/<p>Service meshes are everywhere. Istio. Linkerd. Consul Connect. Every microservices architecture needs one. Or so the marketing says.</p> <p>But here&rsquo;s the thing: service meshes add sidecar proxies to every pod. Envoy, Istio&rsquo;s sidecar, uses 50-200 MB RAM per pod. Linkerd-proxy uses 20-100 MB. Multiply by hundreds of pods. That&rsquo;s gigabytes of memory just for service mesh overhead.</p> <p>All of this before your applications run. All of this just for inter-service communication. All of this overhead.</p>Microservices: What Amazon Prime Video Learned the Hard Way/blog/posts/microservices-performance-fresser/Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000/blog/posts/microservices-performance-fresser/Amazon Prime Video cut costs by 90% by moving away from microservices back to a monolith.