What is Finagle?
Finagle is an extensible RPC system for the JVM, used to construct high-concurrency servers. Finagle implements uniform client and server APIs for several protocols, and is designed for high performance and concurrency.
Finagle is a tool in the Concurrency Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Finagle is an open source tool with 8.8K GitHub stars and 1.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Finagle's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Finagle?
Companies
14 companies reportedly use Finagle in their tech stacks, including Monzo, Amperity, and Dixa.
Developers
54 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Finagle.
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Finagle Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Finagle?
Finatra
At Twitter, Finagle provides the building blocks for most of the code written on the JVM. It has long-served as Twitter's extensible, protocol-agnostic, highly-scalable RPC framework.
gRPC
gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking...
Akka
Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.
Spring Boot
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.
Play
Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.
