s distributed proxy architecture. We took the core lessons from this internal system, generalized many of the concepts by working with our partners, and created Istio.</p>
<h2 id="architecture-recap">Architecture recap</h2>
<p>As shown in the diagram below, Mixer sits between the mesh and the infrastructure backends that support it:</p>














    
    
        
        
            
        
    



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