Akka HTTP vs Apache Tomcat

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Apache Tomcat

Stacks16.9K

Followers12.6K

Votes201

GitHub Stars8.0K

Forks5.3K

Akka HTTP

Stacks54

Followers49

Votes0

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Advice on Apache Tomcat, Akka HTTP

Hari

Mar 3, 2020

Needs advice

I was in a situation where I have to configure 40 RHEL servers 20 each for Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat server. My task was to

configure LVM with required logical volumes, format and mount for HTTP and Tomcat servers accordingly.
Install apache and tomcat.
Generate and apply selfsigned certs to http server.
Modify default ports on Tomcat to different ports.
Create users on RHEL for application support team.
other administrative tasks like, start, stop and restart HTTP and Tomcat services.

I have utilized the power of ansible for all these tasks, which made it easy and manageable.

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Detailed Comparison

Apache Tomcat	Akka HTTP
Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.	The Akka HTTP modules implement a full server- and client-side HTTP stack on top of akka-actor and akka-stream. It’s not a web-framework but rather a more general toolkit for providing and consuming HTTP-based services. While interaction with a browser is of course also in scope it is not the primary focus of Akka HTTP.
-	Full server- and client-side HTTP stack; Toolkit for providing and consuming HTTP-based services
Statistics
GitHub Stars 8.0K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 5.3K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 16.9K	Stacks 54
Followers 12.6K	Followers 49
Votes 201	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 79 Easy 72 Java 49 Popular 1 Spring web Cons 3 Blocking - each http request block a thread 2 Easy to set up	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	Java Scala

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