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        <a class="not-for-endnotes" href="/v0.8/blog/2017/img/mixer-spof-myth-1.svg">
            <img class="element-to-stretch" src="/v0.8/blog/2017/img/mixer-spof-myth-1.svg" alt="Google System Topology" title="Google System Topology" />
        </a>
    </div>
    <figcaption>Google&#39;s API &amp; Service Management System</figcaption>
</figure>

<p>Look familiar? Of course: it’s just like Istio! Istio was conceived as a second generation of thi