 for the different cases"></a></div><figcaption>Throughput obtained for the different cases</figcaption></figure><p>As you can see, there is no major impact in having sidecars and the egress gateway between the application and the external MongoDB, but enabling mutual TLS and then adding the SNI proxy caused a degradation in the throughput of about 10% and 24%, respectively.</p><h3 id=response-time>Response time</h3><p>The average response times for the different requests were collected when traffic was bei