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• Users want reliable software, but they don't necessarily care about the internal details.
• API Gateway and service mesh can be used to mitigate the effects of badly behaving code and give users a better experience.
• Retry, timeout, and rate limit are simple yet effective tools to use in the API Gateway and service mesh.
• Developers, QA, and platform engineers need to think about the end-to-end solution, but they should ideally start with the services and communications.
• Observability and debugging tools can be helpful in identifying and fixing issues.
• Documentation and contribution to open-source projects are important for developer-focused and self-service solutions.

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• Emissary is a service mesh for Kubernetes that can achieve zero trust networking
• Emissary uses envoy for data wrangling and can consume ebpf modules for networking efficiency
• Emissary can generate unique certificates for each connection and recommends using cert manager for certificate rotation
• Emissary 2.11 introduced the ability to use policy for zero trust networking and 2.12 will have a more granular and easier to use policy system
• Installation of Emissary involves adding the helm repo, installing the Emissary CRDs, and using helm to install Emissary into a namespace