Citation: Ahmed R, Ren S, Kim E, Lee C (2026) Efficient service mesh traffic management for cloud-native applications. PLoS One 21(3): e0344516. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0344516 Editor: Jacopo Soldani, Università di Pisa: Universita degli Studi di Pisa, ITALY Received: June 20, 2025; Accepted: February 20, 2026; Published: March 12, 2026 Copyright: © 2026 Ahmed et al.