Light Mesh
Several sidecars in the light-mesh project can be used as a sidecar container in a Kubernetes pod along with your API built with any frameworks or languages to address cross-cutting concerns. With most of the cross-cutting concerns addressed, your developers can focus on the business logic only in the backend API.
The light-proxy can be used as a sidecar to address cross-cutting concerns for APIs built with any framework and language.
Kafka sidecar contains both producer and consumers (consumer group, stream processor and ksqldb subscriber) to interact with a Kafka cluster without the developer knowing Kafka client. All the interactions to Kafka are through the sidecar with REST APIs. Like using the light-proxy as a sidecar, we can leverage light-4j middleware handlers to address cross-cutting concerns at the sidecar level and propagate tracer to the ProducerRecord headers.