-defined and amenable for interposition. Particularly, it requires access to the symbol table of the application binaries. Just to be clear, AppSwitch doesn&rsquo;t implement this today.</p><h2 id=so-whats-the-net>So what’s the net?</h2><p>AppSwitch removes a number of layers and processing from the standard service mesh stack. What does all that translate to in terms of performance?</p><p>We ran some initial experiments to characterize the extent of the opportunity for optimization based on the initial i