"Data planes are proxy sidecars" Wow, kubernetes has completely polluted the architecture nomenclature. This is like saying "abstract your data access layer".

"Data planes are proxy sidecars" Wow, kubernetes has completely polluted the architecture nomenclature. This is like saying "abstract your data access layer". Proxy sidecars? seriously? Doesn't that imply some pointless IPC communication before invoking the ... wait for it ... SERVICE url that actually has the data? So rather than your ... ?motorcycle? directly calling the database ("data plane"? seriously?) via the SERVICE URL, you call some stupid sidecar to do it, I mean, isn't that the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you'd want a "service mesh" to be? Some prescribed fixed (virtual) hardware config rather than a pure service invocation? Weird.