Istio's journey began on May 2017 with its first alpha release of 0.1. Istio's 1.0 production-level release launched in July 2018. Since its inception, 80+ releases of Istio have been published, which shows the dynamism of this trendy open source project. At the time of writing, it is the most popular service mesh framework, with 18,000+ stars, 3,000+ forks, and 100+ companies around the world contributing to it. It has an active developer community around it.
Before the service mesh concept came to light, libraries such as Netflix's Hystrix (https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix) and Twitter's Finagle (https://github.com/twitter/finagle) were popular for serving Java-based programs. Then came Lyft's Envoy (https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy), which changed the dynamics as it could run as a sidecar proxy and hence provided...
