The service mesh v/s APIM: What you should know for your API first business

So you’re a CTO, a lead architect, or a senior engineer, and you’re looking into API Management (APIM), which led you to service mesh. Or you recently discovered service mesh, which led you to hear about APIM.

You’re (justifiably) confused about the differences between the two. It seems like there’s a massive overlap and sometimes merging of the two in terms of their purposes from your organisation’s perspective. You’re not alone!

In this edition of the great API debate, join Budha, product evangelist at Tyk and Sedky, tech lead at Tyk as we unpack some of the similarities and differences between the two, and answer some of your burning questions:

1. If I adopt a service mesh approach to applications, do I still need an API gateway?
2. If I already have an API gateway, should I bother with service mesh?
3. I can’t possibly use both, can I?