width:100%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:54.66034755134282%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.24/blog/2018/delayering-istio/perf.png title="Latency with and without AppSwitch"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.24/blog/2018/delayering-istio/perf.png alt="Performance comparison"></a></div><figcaption>Latency with and without AppSwitch</figcaption></figure><p>Initial results indicate a difference of over 18x in p50 latency with and without AppSwitch (3.99ms vs 72.96ms). The 