l instances. With increased observability, they had a new way to both manage and think about infrastructure. They suddenly had insights into performance and security. Meanwhile Istio was helping them discover existing bugs that had been there all along, unnoticed. By fixing small memory leaks and small bugs in existing applications, they were able to bring significant performance improvements to their overall architecture.</p><h3 id=emergence-of-a-platform-delivery-team>Emergence of a Platform Delivery Team