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What is Azure Service Fabric?
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud apps.
Azure Service Fabric is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Simplify microservices development and application lifecycle managementReliably scale and orchestrate containers and microservicesData-aware platform for low-latency, high-throughput workloads with stateful containers or microservicesRun anything – your choice of languages and programming modelsRun anywhere – supports Windows/Linux in Azure, on-premises, or other cloudsScales up to thousands of machines
Azure Service Fabric Pros & Cons
Pros of Azure Service Fabric
- ✓Intelligent, fast, reliable
- ✓Runs most of Azure core services
- ✓More reliable than Kubernetes
- ✓Open source
- ✓Reliability
- ✓Superior programming models
- ✓Quickest recovery and healing in the world
- ✓Battle hardened in Azure > 10 Years
- ✓Deploy anywhere
- ✓Is data storage technology
Cons of Azure Service Fabric
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Azure Service Fabric Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Azure Service Fabric?
Istio
Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
Zuul
It is the front door for all requests from devices and websites to the backend of the Netflix streaming application. As an edge service application, It is built to enable dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security. Routing is an integral part of a microservice architecture.
Jersey
It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.
