What is Baker Street?
Baker Street is an HAProxy-based client side load balancer that simplifies scaling, testing, and upgrading microservices.
Baker Street is a tool in the Open Source Service Discovery category of a tech stack.
Baker Street is an open source tool with 226 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Baker Street's open source repository on GitHub
Baker Street's Features
- automatically splitting traffic among all healthy services sharing the same name in the system
- making load balancing more efficient and robust by using local load balancers
- removing problematic instances from the rotation more quickly by using local health checkers
Baker Street Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Baker Street?
Consul
Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
Zookeeper
A centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications.
etcd
etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines. It’s open-source and available on GitHub. etcd gracefully handles master elections during network partitions and will tolerate machine failure, including the master.
Eureka
Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers.
Keepalived
The main goal of this project is to provide simple and robust facilities for loadbalancing and high-availability to Linux system and Linux based infrastructures.