about those extra hops?</h2><p>With ambient mode, a waypoint isn’t necessarily guaranteed to be on the same node as the workloads it serves. While at first glance this may appear to be a performance concern, we’re confident that latency will ultimately be in-line with Istio’s current sidecar implementation. We’ll discuss more in a dedicated performance blog post, but for now we’ll summarize with two points:</p><ul><li>The majority of Istio’s network latency does not, in fact, come from the netwo