We're definitely going to hear a lot more on service mesh in the coming period. In one of my startups, we are in the process of implementing a service mesh base

We're definitely going to hear a lot more on service mesh in the coming period. In one of my startups, we are in the process of implementing a service mesh based on Istio (using Kubernetes and Docker). For complex transaction handling, our goal is to implement them using an event-driven design (RabbitMQ). So our architecture will end up being a hybrid of service mesh (service orchestration) and event-driven. We feel that is the way to go to build complex microservices based architecture.