Differences Between Service Mesh and Traditional Spring Cloud

1. Architecture Layer

• Service Mesh: Service Mesh is an infrastructure layer specifically designed to handle communication between services. It achieves this by deploying a proxy (sidecar) alongside each service instance, which manages all network traffic.
• Spring Cloud: Spring Cloud is a framework that provides a set of tools and libraries to simplify the development of microservice architectures. It primarily relies on the Java and Spring ecosystem, implementing service communication and management through code libraries and configurations.