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 title: What is a service mesh?
+description: A service mesh adds security, reliability, and observability features to cloud native apps by transparently inserting this functionality at the platform layer.
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       present but taken for granted and not actually given too much attention.
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-tl;dr: A service mesh like Linkerd is a tool for adding observability,
-security, and reliability features to "cloud native" applications by
-transparently inserting this functionality at the platform layer rather than
-the application layer. The service mesh is rapidly becoming a standard part of
-the cloud native stack, especially for Kubernetes adopters.
+A service mesh like Linkerd is a tool for adding security, reliability, and
+observability features to cloud native applications by transparently inserting
+this functionality at the platform layer rather than the application layer.
+The service mesh is rapidly becoming a standard part of the cloud native
+stack, especially for Kubernetes adopters.
 
 Over the past few years, the service mesh has risen from relative obscurity to
 become a standard component of the cloud native stack. Linkerd ("linker-dee"),