The flip side is that some of this standardisation lets smaller teams very easily get this functionality without the man-hours required to implement it in your

The flip side is that some of this standardisation lets smaller teams very easily get this functionality without the man-hours required to implement it in your application layer. < Usual caveats apply, don’t bother until you need it, etc etc. Personally though, I’ve found dropping in linkerd, or Cilium CNI about an afternoon’s work, with no application code changes necessary>