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Alternatives to Actix

warp, Rocket, Iron, Hyper, and Elixir are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Actix.
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What is Actix and what are its top alternatives?

It is a simple, pragmatic and extremely fast web framework for Rust. Actors are objects which encapsulate state and behavior, they communicate exclusively by exchanging messages.
Actix is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Actix is an open source tool with 8.6K GitHub stars and 651 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Actix's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Actix

  • warp
    warp

    warp lets you securely share your terminal with one simple command: warp open. When connected to your warp, clients can see your terminal exactly as if they were sitting next to you. You can also grant them write access, the equivalent of handing them your keyboard. ...

  • Rocket
    Rocket

    Rocket is a web framework for Rust that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety. All with minimal code. ...

  • Iron
    Iron

    Iron is a high level web framework built in and for Rust, built on hyper. Iron is designed to take advantage of Rust's greatest features - its excellent type system and its principled approach to ownership in both single threaded and multi threaded contexts. ...

  • Hyper
    Hyper

    Hyper.sh is a secure container hosting service. What makes it different from AWS (Amazon Web Services) is that you don't start servers, but start docker images directly from Docker Hub or other registries. ...

  • Elixir
    Elixir

    Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain. ...

  • Flask
    Flask

    Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind. ...

  • Erlang
    Erlang

    Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems. ...

  • NGINX
    NGINX

    nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018. ...

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warp

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Secure and simple terminal sharing
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PROS OF WARP
  • 1
    Lots of safe code
CONS OF WARP
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    Rocket

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    Web Framework for Rust
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    PROS OF ROCKET
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      Easy to use
    • 4
      Uses all the rust features extensively
    • 1
      Django analog in rust
    • 1
      Inbuilt templating feature
    • 1
      Provides nice abstractions
    CONS OF ROCKET
    • 1
      Only runs in nightly

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    Iron

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    Extensible web framework for Rust
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      CONS OF IRON
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        Hyper

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            Elixir

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            PROS OF ELIXIR
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              Concurrency
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              Functional
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              Erlang vm
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              Great documentation
            • 105
              Great tooling
            • 86
              Immutable data structures
            • 81
              Open source
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              Pattern-matching
            • 62
              Easy to get started
            • 59
              Actor library
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              Functional with a neat syntax
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              Ruby inspired
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              Erlang evolved
            • 24
              Homoiconic
            • 22
              Beauty of Ruby, Speed of Erlang/C
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              Fault Tolerant
            • 14
              Simple
            • 13
              High Performance
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              Pipe Operator
            • 11
              Good lang
            • 11
              Doc as first class citizen
            • 9
              Fun to write
            • 9
              Stinkin' fast, no memory leaks, easy on the eyes
            • 8
              Resilient to failure
            • 8
              OTP
            • 6
              GenServer takes the guesswork out of background work
            • 4
              Idempotence
            • 4
              Pattern matching
            • 4
              Not Swift
            • 4
              Fast, Concurrent with clean error messages
            • 3
              Easy to use
            • 2
              Error isolation
            • 2
              Dynamic Typing
            CONS OF ELIXIR
            • 11
              Fewer jobs for Elixir experts
            • 7
              Smaller userbase than other mainstream languages
            • 5
              Elixir's dot notation less readable ("object": 1st arg)
            • 4
              Dynamic typing
            • 2
              Difficult to understand
            • 1
              Not a lot of learning books available

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            Kamil Kowalski
            Lead Architect at Fresha · | 28 upvotes · 4M views

            When you think about test automation, it’s crucial to make it everyone’s responsibility (not just QA Engineers'). We started with Selenium and Java, but with our platform revolving around Ruby, Elixir and JavaScript, QA Engineers were left alone to automate tests. Cypress was the answer, as we could switch to JS and simply involve more people from day one. There's a downside too, as it meant testing on Chrome only, but that was "good enough" for us + if really needed we can always cover some specific cases in a different way.

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            Sebastian Gębski

            Another major decision was to adopt Elixir and Phoenix Framework - the DX (Developer eXperience) is pretty similar to what we know from RoR, but this tech is running on the top of rock-solid Erlang platform which is powering planet-scale telecom solutions for 20+ years. So we're getting pretty much the best from both worlds: minimum friction & smart conventions that eliminate the excessive boilerplate AND highly concurrent EVM (Erlang's Virtual Machine) that makes all the scalability problems vanish. The transition was very smooth - none of Ruby developers we had decided to leave because of Elixir. What is more, we kept recruiting Ruby developers w/o any requirement regarding Elixir proficiency & we still were able to educate them internally in almost no time. Obviously Elixir comes with some more tools in the stack: Credo , Hex , AppSignal (required to properly monitor BEAM apps).

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            Flask

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            PROS OF FLASK
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              For it flexibility
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              Flexibilty and easy to use
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              Flask
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              User friendly
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              Secured
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              Unopinionated
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              Secure
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              Customizable
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              Simple to use
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              Powerful
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              Rapid development
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              Beautiful code
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              Easy to develop and maintain applications
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              Easy to setup and get it going
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              Easy to use
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              Documentation
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              Python
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              Minimal
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              Lightweight
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              Easy to get started
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              Orm
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              Not JS
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              Perfect for small to large projects with superb docs.
            • 1
              Easy to integrate
            • 1
              Speed
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              Get started quickly
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              Open source
            • 0
              Well designed
            • 0
              Flexibilty
            • 0
              Productive
            • 0
              Awesome
            • 0
              Expressive
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              Love it
            CONS OF FLASK
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              Not JS
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              Context
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              Not fast
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              Don't has many module as in spring

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            James Man
            Software Engineer at Pinterest · | 46 upvotes · 2.8M views
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            One of our top priorities at Pinterest is fostering a safe and trustworthy experience for all Pinners. As Pinterest’s user base and ads business grow, the review volume has been increasing exponentially, and more content types require moderation support. To solve greater engineering and operational challenges at scale, we needed a highly-reliable and performant system to detect, report, evaluate, and act on abusive content and users and so we created Pinqueue.

            Pinqueue-3.0 serves as a generic platform for content moderation and human labeling. Under the hood, Pinqueue3.0 is a Flask + React app powered by Pinterest’s very own Gestalt UI framework. On the backend, Pinqueue3.0 heavily relies on PinLater, a Pinterest-built reliable asynchronous job execution system, to handle the requests for enqueueing and action-taking. Using PinLater has significantly strengthened Pinqueue3.0’s overall infra with its capability of processing a massive load of events with configurable retry policies.

            Hundreds of millions of people around the world use Pinterest to discover and do what they love, and our job is to protect them from abusive and harmful content. We’re committed to providing an inspirational yet safe experience to all Pinners. Solving trust & safety problems is a joint effort requiring expertise across multiple domains. Pinqueue3.0 not only plays a critical role in responsively taking down unsafe content, it also has become an enabler for future ML/automation initiatives by providing high-quality human labels. Going forward, we will continue to improve the review experience, measure review quality and collaborate with our machine learning teams to solve content moderation beyond manual reviews at an even larger scale.

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            Hey, so I developed a basic application with Python. But to use it, you need a python interpreter. I want to add a GUI to make it more appealing. What should I choose to develop a GUI? I have very basic skills in front end development (CSS, JavaScript). I am fluent in python. I'm looking for a tool that is easy to use and doesn't require too much code knowledge. I have recently tried out Flask, but it is kinda complicated. Should I stick with it, move to Django, or is there another nice framework to use?

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            Erlang

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            A programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability
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            PROS OF ERLANG
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              Real time, distributed applications
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              Concurrency Support
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              Fault tolerance
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              Soft real-time
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              Open source
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              Message passing
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              Functional programming
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              Immutable data
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              Works as expected
            • 6
              Facebook chat uses it at backend
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              Practical
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              Knowledgeable community
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              Bullets included
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              WhatsApp uses it at backend
            CONS OF ERLANG
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              Languange is not popular demand

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            Another major decision was to adopt Elixir and Phoenix Framework - the DX (Developer eXperience) is pretty similar to what we know from RoR, but this tech is running on the top of rock-solid Erlang platform which is powering planet-scale telecom solutions for 20+ years. So we're getting pretty much the best from both worlds: minimum friction & smart conventions that eliminate the excessive boilerplate AND highly concurrent EVM (Erlang's Virtual Machine) that makes all the scalability problems vanish. The transition was very smooth - none of Ruby developers we had decided to leave because of Elixir. What is more, we kept recruiting Ruby developers w/o any requirement regarding Elixir proficiency & we still were able to educate them internally in almost no time. Obviously Elixir comes with some more tools in the stack: Credo , Hex , AppSignal (required to properly monitor BEAM apps).

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            Hello everyone, I plan on building a platform that supports 100s of forums out of the box, it would give the user the ability to create forums, where other users can comment, post images, and videos (the size of videos would be limited). Each forum would have the ability to trend. I have been doing a lot of research and I have arrived at Golang and Erlang as the backend languages and PostgreSQL as the DB. Erlang would be used for the routing of chats and messages, while Go would be used to manage the forums. We would also be implementing a one on one chat system like WhatsApp chat, where users can add contacts.

            Please I would like to know if the languages picked are appropriate for this project. Suggestions would be appreciated.

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            NGINX

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              Performance
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              Easy to configure
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              Open source
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              Load balancer
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              Free
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              Scalability
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              Web server
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              Simplicity
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              Easy setup
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              Content caching
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              Web Accelerator
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              Capability
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              Fast
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              High-latency
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              Predictability
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              Reverse Proxy
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              The best of them
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              Supports http/2
            • 5
              Great Community
            • 5
              Lots of Modules
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              Enterprise version
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              High perfomance proxy server
            • 3
              Embedded Lua scripting
            • 3
              Streaming media delivery
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              Streaming media
            • 3
              Reversy Proxy
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              Blash
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              GRPC-Web
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              Lightweight
            • 2
              Fast and easy to set up
            • 2
              Slim
            • 2
              saltstack
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              Virtual hosting
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              Narrow focus. Easy to configure. Fast
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              Along with Redis Cache its the Most superior
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              Ingress controller
            CONS OF NGINX
            • 10
              Advanced features require subscription

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            Simon Reymann
            Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 30 upvotes · 10.6M views

            Our whole DevOps stack consists of the following tools:

            • GitHub (incl. GitHub Pages/Markdown for Documentation, GettingStarted and HowTo's) for collaborative review and code management tool
            • Respectively Git as revision control system
            • SourceTree as Git GUI
            • Visual Studio Code as IDE
            • CircleCI for continuous integration (automatize development process)
            • Prettier / TSLint / ESLint as code linter
            • SonarQube as quality gate
            • Docker as container management (incl. Docker Compose for multi-container application management)
            • VirtualBox for operating system simulation tests
            • Kubernetes as cluster management for docker containers
            • Heroku for deploying in test environments
            • nginx as web server (preferably used as facade server in production environment)
            • SSLMate (using OpenSSL) for certificate management
            • Amazon EC2 (incl. Amazon S3) for deploying in stage (production-like) and production environments
            • PostgreSQL as preferred database system
            • Redis as preferred in-memory database/store (great for caching)

            The main reason we have chosen Kubernetes over Docker Swarm is related to the following artifacts:

            • Key features: Easy and flexible installation, Clear dashboard, Great scaling operations, Monitoring is an integral part, Great load balancing concepts, Monitors the condition and ensures compensation in the event of failure.
            • Applications: An application can be deployed using a combination of pods, deployments, and services (or micro-services).
            • Functionality: Kubernetes as a complex installation and setup process, but it not as limited as Docker Swarm.
            • Monitoring: It supports multiple versions of logging and monitoring when the services are deployed within the cluster (Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK), Heapster/Grafana, Sysdig cloud integration).
            • Scalability: All-in-one framework for distributed systems.
            • Other Benefits: Kubernetes is backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), huge community among container orchestration tools, it is an open source and modular tool that works with any OS.
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            John-Daniel Trask
            Co-founder & CEO at Raygun · | 19 upvotes · 275.4K views

            We chose AWS because, at the time, it was really the only cloud provider to choose from.

            We tend to use their basic building blocks (EC2, ELB, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS) rather than vendor specific components like databases and queuing. We deliberately decided to do this to ensure we could provide multi-cloud support or potentially move to another cloud provider if the offering was better for our customers.

            We’ve utilized c3.large nodes for both the Node.js deployment and then for the .NET Core deployment. Both sit as backends behind an nginx instance and are managed using scaling groups in Amazon EC2 sitting behind a standard AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).

            While we’re satisfied with AWS, we do review our decision each year and have looked at Azure and Google Cloud offerings.

            #CloudHosting #WebServers #CloudStorage #LoadBalancerReverseProxy

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