Architect vs Knative: What are the differences?

What is Architect? The simplest, most powerful way to build serverless applications. Create, deploy, and maintain next-generation AWS cloud function-based serverless infrastructure with full local, offline workflows, and more.

What is Knative? Kubernetes-based platform for serverless workloads. Knative provides a set of middleware components that are essential to build modern, source-centric, and container-based applications that can run anywhere: on premises, in the cloud, or even in a third-party data center.

Architect and Knative can be categorized as "Serverless / Task Processing" tools.

Some of the features offered by Architect are:

• Version control your architecture and create cloud infra in minutes from an .arc manifest
• Deploy in seconds with first class support for staging and production
• Work locally while completely offline with a speedy in-memory database

On the other hand, Knative provides the following key features:

• Serving - Scale to zero, request-driven compute model
• Build - Cloud-native source to container orchestration
• Events - Universal subscription, delivery and management of events

Architect and Knative are both open source tools. Knative with 2.01K GitHub stars and 393 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Architect with 594 GitHub stars and 48 GitHub forks.