Version 3.0 of Nacos upgrades to JDK 17 and Spring Boot 3.4.1, introduces AI‑focused MCP, enhanced Admin API with default authentication, unified namespaces, beta distributed lock and fuzzy listening features, and native xDS protocol support, while highlighting related open‑source SpringBoot + Vue e‑commerce projects.
This article explains how Istio's sidecar proxy uses Envoy, iptables rules, and the xDS API to intercept and redirect traffic between Kubernetes pods, detailing the startup injection, traffic hijacking process, and how configuration is dynamically generated by istiod.
This article explains what Istio and its sidecar proxy are, how they are injected into Kubernetes pods, the iptables rules they use to hijack traffic, the xDS APIs that drive dynamic configuration, and how to inspect the resulting Envoy settings.
This article traces the evolution of service mesh from its early concepts through microservice 1.0 and 2.0, analyzes the shortcomings of Envoy‑based sidecars, and explores future directions such as Go‑based data planes, WASM plugins, eBPF/VPP acceleration, QUIC transport, and on‑demand xDS delivery.
Facing large‑scale production demands, Ctrip’s Cloud Container team designed a multi‑data‑center Service Mesh architecture that isolates failures, employs dual‑active IDC, multi‑cluster deployments, and optimized xDS push mechanisms, ensuring high availability, rapid fault recovery, and efficient rollout across hundreds of services.
This article details the challenges Ctrip faced with Istio control‑plane performance at massive scale and explains the systematic methodology, concrete optimizations—including O(n²) to O(n) patching, Merkle‑tree based success‑rate metrics, and startup improvements—that reduced xDS push latency from minutes to seconds while enhancing reliability.
This article introduces Apache APISIX, examines the challenges of using it as a data‑plane in a service‑mesh architecture, presents the apisix‑mesh‑agent as an intermediary solution, and outlines the advantages, design, and future roadmap of a APISIX‑based cloud‑native service mesh.
This article explains what a Service Mesh is, how FangDuoduo adopted Envoy and macvlan/overlay networks to solve Dubbo IP registration issues, built an XDS configuration service for both containers and VMs, and dramatically improved development efficiency and infrastructure agility.
