ning under Istio are redirected through its sidecar proxy, an implicit dependency is created between the application service and its sidecar. Unless the sidecar is fully operational, all requests from and to the service get dropped.</p><h2 id=dependency-ordering-with-appswitch>Dependency ordering with AppSwitch</h2><p>So how do we go about addressing these issues? One way is to defer it to the applications and say that they are supposed to be &ldquo;well behaved&rdquo; and implement appropriate logic to mak