>Improved Mixer Latency</strong>. Mixer now clearly delineates configuration-time vs. request-time computations, which avoids doing extra setup work at
request-time for initial requests and thus delivers a smoother average latency. Better resource caching also contributes to better end-to-end performance.</p></li><li><p><strong>Reduced Latency for Egress Traffic</strong>. We now forward traffic to external services directly from the sidecar.</p></li></ul><h3 id=traffic-management>Traffic management</h3><ul>