What is 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.
linkerd is a tool in the Microservices Tools category of a tech stack.
linkerd is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to linkerd's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses linkerd?
Companies
38 companies reportedly use linkerd in their tech stacks, including main, Monzo, and StreamElements.
Developers
89 developers on StackShare have stated that they use linkerd.
Pros of linkerd
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linkerd's Features
- Adaptive load-balancing
- Fine-grained instrumentation
- Abstractions over service discovery
- Runtime traffic routing
- Tech that's built for scale
linkerd Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to linkerd?
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.
HAProxy
HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
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.
Consul
Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
