Fat sidecars: A one-gig container with 200 megs of application - the sidecar tax @VMwareTanzu
Fat sidecars: A one-gig container with 200 megs of application - the sidecar tax  @VMwareTanzu
Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
“The number of agents in a container significantly outweighs the agent it’s monitoring.” David Zendzian on the math nobody wants to put in their architecture diagram - service mesh sidecar, network sidecar, container analysis sidecar, and somewhere in the middle a 200-meg application doing the actual work.

Clipped from a conversation on the AI-era security playbook with @davidzendzian on Tanzu Catsup.

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