What is Hystrix?
Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable.
Hystrix is a tool in the Fault Tolerance Tools category of a tech stack.
Hystrix is an open source tool with 23.9K GitHub stars and 4.7K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Hystrix's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Hystrix?
Companies
26 companies reportedly use Hystrix in their tech stacks, including Intuit, Zalando, and Groww.
Developers
105 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Hystrix.
Hystrix Integrations
Pros of Hystrix
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Hystrix's Features
- Latency and Fault Tolerance
- Realtime Operations
- Concurrency
Hystrix Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Hystrix?
Akka
Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.
Envoy
Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.
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.
Polly
It is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner.
