Claudia vs linkerd: What are the differences?

Claudia: Deploy Node.js microservices to AWS Lambda and API Gateway easily. Claudia helps you deploy Node.js microservices to Amazon Web Services easily. It automates and simplifies deployment workflows and error prone tasks, so you can focus on important problems and not have to worry about AWS service quirks; linkerd: Twitter-Style Operability for Microservices. 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.

Claudia and linkerd can be primarily classified as "Microservices" tools.

Some of the features offered by Claudia are:

• Create or update Lambda functions and Web APIs from Node.js projects hassle-free
• Automatically configure the Lambda function for commonly useful tasks
• Automatically set up API Gateway resources the way Javascript developers expect them to work

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

• Adaptive load-balancing
• Fine-grained instrumentation
• Abstractions over service discovery

Claudia and linkerd are both open source tools. linkerd with 5.01K GitHub stars and 501 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Claudia with 3.21K GitHub stars and 221 GitHub forks.