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Linkerd provides a mature and production-ready implementation of a service mesh. There are several areas where its architecture has considerable benefits over currently available alternatives. For example, linkerd's plugin-based architecture provides extensibility of the data plane that allows for much more customized integrations into pre-existing architectures compared to alternatives that allow customization via remote API contracts. Although the JVM overhead is a downside, there are many use-cases where linkerd is a great fit.