BFE vs Fly
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Deploy apps through our global load balancer with minimal shenanigans. All Fly-enabled applications get free SSL certificates, accept traffic through our global network of datacenters, and encrypt all traffic from visitors through to application servers. | It is an open-source layer 7 load balancer derived from proprietary Baidu FrontEnd. It supports multiple protocols , including HTTP,HTTPS, SPDY, HTTP2, WebSocket, TLS, etc. And it supports multiple load balancing policies. |
Purpose-built cloud;
CPU, memory, and storage on tap;
Batteries Included Networking;
Metrics and alerting | Multiple protocols supported, including HTTP, HTTPS, SPDY, HTTP2, WebSocket, TLS, etc;
Content based routing, support user-defined routing rule in advanced domain-specific language;
Support multiple load balancing policies;
Flexible plugin framework to extend functionality. Based on the framework, developer can add new features rapidly;
Detailed built-in metrics available for service status monitor |
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HAProxy
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Hasura
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