es into which all incoming traffic would flow, before being forwarded to the services where the real work was done. The newer architecture jettisons the shared proxy design and instead consists of a very lean and efficient distributed sidecar proxy sitting next to service instances, along with a shared fleet of sharded control plane intermediaries:</p><div class="figure" style="width: 75%;"><div class="wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio" style="padding-bottom: 74.79%"><figure> <a href="./img/mixer-spof-myth-1.svg