What is Helidon?
It is a collection of Java libraries for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Netty.
Helidon is a tool in the Microservices Tools category of a tech stack.
Helidon is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Helidon's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Helidon?
Developers
12 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Helidon.
Helidon Integrations
Java, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Jaeger, and Netty are some of the popular tools that integrate with Helidon. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with Helidon.
Pros of Helidon
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Helidon's Features
- Reactive Microframework
- Tiny Footprint
- Functional Style
- Simple and Transparent
- GraalVM Native Image
- MicroProfile
- Small Footprint
- Declarative Style
- Dependency Injection
Helidon Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Helidon?
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.
linkerd
linkerd is an out-of-process network stack for microservices. It functions as a transparent RPC proxy, handling everything needed to make inter-service RPC safe and sane--including load-balancing, service discovery, instrumentation, and routing.
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.