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Helidon
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Helidon

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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 API Tools category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Reactive MicroframeworkTiny FootprintFunctional StyleSimple and TransparentGraalVM Native ImageMicroProfileSmall FootprintDeclarative StyleDependency Injection

Helidon Pros & Cons

Pros of Helidon

  • ✓Light weight and fast

Cons of Helidon

No cons listed yet.

Helidon Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Helidon?

Istio

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

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

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

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

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.

Dapr

Dapr

It is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, stateless and stateful microservices that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.

Helidon Integrations

Kubernetes, Java, Netty, OpenAPI, OpenTracing and 5 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Helidon. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with Helidon.

Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Java
Java
Netty
Netty
OpenAPI
OpenAPI
OpenTracing
OpenTracing
Jaeger
Jaeger
Jersey
Jersey
Prometheus
Prometheus
Zipkin
Zipkin
GraalVM
GraalVM

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