A Cloud-Native World Pushed Service Meshes Forward in 2020 Service meshes debuted in 2017, but it really broke big in 2020 due to the increased complexity of the cloud-native world. In 2020, one of the most talked and written about emerging technologies was the service mesh. Interest in the technology is on the rise, because it promises to ease workloads for DevOps teams working with large hybrid cloud infrastructures. These infrastructures are becoming increasingly more complex as the "cloud-native" concept expands beyond containers running monolithic applications and now includes technologies such as microservices that spread workloads across a multi-cloud infrastructure. This sprawling complexity introduces multiple new issues that traditional networks aren't designed to handle. With the addition of microservices, for example, services now have to find and connect to