Service Mesh vs. Kafka

I have been following two separated but interdependent technologies over the last few months, which although they are a hot topic, not many people talk about when to use one or the other; I’m talking about Kafka and Istio.

Both technologies are great and you can find lots of talks showing how introducing these technologies into your organization can transform your business, and they are right!. Now image you are the proud owner of a huge monolith application which no one understands anymore and no one wants to touch. The business realizes that this is a problem and decides to do something…