Apache Traffic Server vs Section

Overview

Section

Stacks52

Followers63

Votes63

Apache Traffic Server

Stacks452

Followers57

Votes0

GitHub Stars1.9K

Forks842

Section vs Apache Traffic Server: What are the differences?

Developers describe Section as "Run compute workloads on a distributed edge". Edge Compute Platform gives Dev and Ops engineers the access and control they need to run compute workloads on a distributed edge. On the other hand, Apache Traffic Server is detailed as "RFC compliant, high performance HTTP proxy cache". It is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 compliant caching proxy server.Improve your response time, while reducing server load and bandwidth needs by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages, images, and web ser.

Section and Apache Traffic Server can be primarily classified as "Web Cache" tools.

Some of the features offered by Section are:

Varnish Cache
Nginx/Lua
SiteSpect

On the other hand, Apache Traffic Server provides the following key features:

Open Source
Very Fast
High-performance

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Section	Apache Traffic Server
Edge Compute Platform gives Dev and Ops engineers the access and control they need to run compute workloads on a distributed edge.	It is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 compliant caching proxy server.Improve your response time, while reducing server load and bandwidth needs by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages, images, and web ser
Varnish Cache; Nginx/Lua; SiteSpect; Cloudinary; Kraken; ModSecurity; Signal Sciences; ThreatX; ShieldSquare; PageSpeed; Virtual Waiting Room; Node JS; Real Time Metrics; Log Management; Real User Monitoring; Instant Global Deployments; Developer PoP; Instant Cache Purge; Managed SSL Certificates; Dynamic Content Caching; Static Asset Caching; HTML Streaming; Anonymous Page Caching; Image Optimization; Front-End Optimization; Mobile Optimization; Virtual Waiting Room; HTTP/2; Web Application Firewall; IP Blocking; SSL Certificates; DDoS Mitigation; Bad Bot Management; Load Balancing; Maintenance Pages; Anycast DNS Hosting	Open Source; Very Fast; High-performance; Extensible; ESI; Load Balancer; Caching
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 1.9K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 842
Stacks 52	Stacks 452
Followers 63	Followers 57
Votes 63	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 10 Realtime stats 10 Makes the hard parts of varnish easy 8 No more hair pulling configuring caching 8 Git support 7 Easy setup	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Kibana Elasticsearch GitHub Docker SourceTree ProgrammableWeb Graphite Varnish	CentOS FreeBSD Alpine Linux Fedora Debian Mac OS X

What are some alternatives to Section, Apache Traffic Server?

Varnish

Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture.

Squid

Squid reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.