What is 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.
Eureka is a tool in the Open Source Service Discovery category of a tech stack.
Eureka is an open source tool with 12.2K GitHub stars and 3.7K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Eureka's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Eureka?
Companies
19 companies reportedly use Eureka in their tech stacks, including wadiz, Swingvy, and Hudl Web Stack.
Developers
260 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Eureka.
Eureka Integrations
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Eureka Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Eureka?
Consul
Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
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.
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.
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.
