By Ivan Novikov

Before we get started, let's take a look at this definition: “A language-neutral way of implementing objects that can be used in environments different from the one they were created in.” And this one: “A platform-independent, distributed, object-oriented system for creating binary software components that can interact.”Do you think these are describing a service mesh from the 21st century? Well, they are actually definitions of Microsoft DDE (1987) and COM (1993) technologies, respectively. It's worth noting that a lot of concepts were invented a while ago and then just reused under different names to solve different cases.