linkerdWhat 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 API Tools category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Adaptive load-balancingFine-grained instrumentationAbstractions over service discoveryRuntime traffic routingTech that's built for scale
linkerd Pros & Cons
Pros of linkerd
- ✓CNCF Project
- ✓Fast Integration
- ✓Light Weight
- ✓Pre-check permissions
- ✓Service Mesh
Cons of linkerd
No cons listed yet.
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.
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.
