uated to help provide insights on Istio component performance.</p><p>Another tool that is used to evaluate the performance of Istio’s builds is <a href=https://fortio.org/>Fortio</a>, which provides a synthetic end to end load testing benchmark.</p><h2 id=summary>Summary</h2><p>Istio 1.1 was designed for performance and scalability. The Istio Performance and Scalability workgroup measured significant performance improvements over 1.0.
Istio 1.1 introduces new features and optimizations to help harden the 