title: str = "Microservices Architecture and Service Mesh"

content: str = """
Microservices architecture is an approach to developing a single application 
as a suite of small, independent services, each running in its own process 
and communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP resource API.

**Key Benefits:**
1. **Independent Deployability:** Services can be updated and deployed 
   without affecting the entire system.
2. **Scalability:** Individual services can be scaled independently based 
   on their specific resource demands.
3. **Technological Diversity:** Different services can be written in 
   different languages or use different data stores.

**Challenges of Microservices:**
*   **Complexity:** Managing dozens or hundreds of services increases 
    operational overhead and complicates monitoring.
*   **Network Latency:** Inter-service communication introduces overhead 
    compared to in-process calls in a monolith.
*   **Data Consistency:** Maintaining consistency across distributed 
    databases requires complex patterns like Sagas.

**Service Mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd):** A dedicated infrastructure layer 
for handling service-to-service communication. It provides features like 
load balancing, service discovery, encryption (mTLS), and observability 
without requiring changes to the application code.

Architects must determine if the organizational and technical benefits of 
microservices outweigh the inherent complexity for a given project.
"""

version: str = "0.0.1"
