17Envoy gets SIGTERM at the same instant as the app and requests drop mid-rollout. How does container ordering in a pod really work?▼medium★ EssentialNewGoogleUberStripe○ sign inInit containers are the easy half. The hard half is why plain sidecars race your app at both ends of the pod's life, and what restartPolicy Always changes about that.Open full answer →
49Sidecar proxies cost us real memory per pod. Do ambient and Cilium-style meshes actually remove that cost, and what do they trade?▼mediumNewSalesforceStripeSAP◆ premiumYes, the proxy moves: one L4 agent per node, eBPF in-kernel, waypoints only where L7 policy demands. The scored answer quantifies the sidecar bill, compares where each architecture lands the proxy, and names migration risks.Open full answer →