"> <img class="element-to-stretch" src="./img/mixer-spof-myth-1.svg" alt="Google System Topology" title="Google System Topology" /> </a></figure></div><p>Google's API &amp; Service Management System</p></div><p>Look familiar? Of course: it’s just like Istio! Istio was conceived as a second generation of this distributed proxy architecture. We took the core lessons from this internal system, generalized many of the concepts by working with our partners, and created Istio.</p><h2 id="architecture-recap">Arc