Network management services for modern architectures, such as the service mesh and the API gateway, are increasingly on IT professionals’ roadmaps, especially within public cloud environments. Notably, 37% of IT professionals expect to start using service meshes in the public cloud in the next year, but actual adoption rates may be significantly lower if the technology’s hype bubble bursts. Those are two of our takeaways from F5 Networks’ “2020 State of Application Services,” which is based on a survey of over 2,500 IT professionals, 34% of which are in a networking-related role.
According to the survey, 51% are currently using ingress control services in a public cloud, with 41% using API gateways and 19% using service meshes. Those figures are significantly lower for on-premises environments.
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