erent interfaces and operational models, Mixer needs custom
code to deal with each and we call these custom bundles of code <a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/wiki/Mixer-Compiled-In-Adapter-Dev-Guide><em>adapters</em></a>.</p><p>Adapters are Go packages that are directly linked into the Mixer binary. It’s fairly simple to create custom Mixer binaries linked with specialized sets of adapters, in case the default set of adapters is not sufficient for specific use cases.</p><h2 id=philosophy>Philosophy</