ROADMAP.md

Service Mesh Performance Roadmap

Area: Specification

• Enhance workload metadata model with integration with Open Application Model.
• Enhance service mesh configuration model with integration with Service Mesh Interface.

Area: Publication

• Identification of representative workloads.
• Establishment of standard benchmark configurations.
• Characterization of comparative differences (apples-to-oranges) performance comparisons of service mesh deployments.
• Continous publication of service mesh performance benchmarks on CNCF and IEEE venues.

Area: Participation

• Increase individual service mesh project participation.
• Exchange of performance information from system-to-system / mesh-to-mesh.

Area: Research

• collaborative, academic research on a universal performance index to gauge a service mesh’s efficiency against deployments in other organizations’ environments.
• collaborative, academic research on performance characterization of new distributing tracing sampling algorithms.