Great post. Are you looking to follow this up with the updated version?

I recently written about service mesh from a different perspective - perceived attitudes on Service-Mesh-as-a-solution.

Business requirements vs wants, and considerations to make adoption of service mesh successful.

Let me know your thoughts https://medium.com/contino-engineering/planning-for-istio-a-hard-look-at-the-requirements-the-want-for-service-mesh-solution-smaas-454d44793961