Snapchat's Shift to Microservices

Snapchat's Service Mesh Snapchat is an instant messaging application with 360 million daily active users from all around the world. Snap's shift from a Monolith to Microservices led to a 65% reduction in compute costs while reducing latency, increasing reliability and making it easier for Snap to grow as an organization. Snap used the Service Mesh design pattern where they had a data plane and a control plane.