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  5. Devise vs Google Cloud DNS

Devise vs Google Cloud DNS

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Overview

Google Cloud DNS
Google Cloud DNS
Stacks2.4K
Followers572
Votes44
Devise
Devise
Stacks533
Followers232
Votes56

Devise vs Google Cloud DNS: What are the differences?

Developers describe Devise as "Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden". Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden. On the other hand, Google Cloud DNS is detailed as "Reliable, resilient, low-latency DNS serving from Google’s worldwide network of Anycast DNS servers". Use Google's infrastructure for production quality, high volume DNS serving. Your users will have reliable, low-latency access to Google's infrastructure from anywhere in the world using our network of Anycast name servers.

Devise belongs to "User Management and Authentication" category of the tech stack, while Google Cloud DNS can be primarily classified under "DNS Management".

Some of the features offered by Devise are:

  • Is Rack based
  • Is a complete MVC solution based on Rails engines
  • Allows you to have multiple models signed in at the same time

On the other hand, Google Cloud DNS provides the following key features:

  • High performance, reliable DNS service
  • Easy to use, customizable to your needs
  • Manage records for all your services

"Reliable" is the primary reason why developers consider Devise over the competitors, whereas "Backed by Google" was stated as the key factor in picking Google Cloud DNS.

Devise is an open source tool with 20K GitHub stars and 4.76K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Devise's open source repository on GitHub.

StackShare, Accenture, and Movielala are some of the popular companies that use Devise, whereas Google Cloud DNS is used by BarbaRuiva.com, SunSed, LLC, and FOODit. Devise has a broader approval, being mentioned in 56 company stacks & 30 developers stacks; compared to Google Cloud DNS, which is listed in 31 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Advice on Google Cloud DNS, Devise

Eric
Eric

Service Engineer at Zix Corporation

Aug 5, 2020

Needs adviceonAmazon Route 53Amazon Route 53

We are looking for advice / best-practices / caveats about migrating off BIND on to Unbound https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/ for internal & external (customer-facing) DNS. Is unbound suitable for this, or is it only recommended for caching? How easy or difficult is it to move 10000's of existing BIND DNS zone entries? We already use Amazon Route 53 for our AWS instances and Cloud DNS for our GCP ones, but would like to maintain internal DNS for cost, control, and latency reasons.

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Detailed Comparison

Google Cloud DNS
Google Cloud DNS
Devise
Devise

Use Google's infrastructure for production quality, high volume DNS serving. Your users will have reliable, low-latency access to Google's infrastructure from anywhere in the world using our network of Anycast name servers.

Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden

High performance, reliable DNS service;Easy to use, customizable to your needs;Manage records for all your services
Is Rack based;Is a complete MVC solution based on Rails engines;Allows you to have multiple models signed in at the same time;Is based on a modularity concept: use just what you really need.
Statistics
Stacks
2.4K
Stacks
533
Followers
572
Followers
232
Votes
44
Votes
56
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 9
    Backed by Google
  • 7
    High-availability
  • 6
    Reliable
  • 5
    Anycast DNS servers
  • 5
    High volume
Cons
  • 4
    Lack of privacy
  • 2
    Backed by Google
Pros
  • 33
    Reliable
  • 17
    Open Source
  • 4
    Support for neo4j database
  • 2
    Secure
Integrations
No integrations available
Rails
Rails

What are some alternatives to Google Cloud DNS, Devise?

Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating human readable names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other. Route 53 effectively connects user requests to infrastructure running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) – such as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer, or an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket – and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS.

Auth0

Auth0

A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications.

Stormpath

Stormpath

Stormpath is an authentication and user management service that helps development teams quickly and securely build web and mobile applications and services.

Keycloak

Keycloak

It is an Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services. It adds authentication to applications and secure services with minimum fuss. No need to deal with storing users or authenticating users. It's all available out of the box.

DNSimple

DNSimple

DNSimple provides the tools you need to manage your domains. We offer both a carefully crafted web interface for managing your domains and DNS records, as well as an HTTP API with various code libraries and tools. Buy, connect, operate!

Firebase Authentication

Firebase Authentication

It provides backend services, easy-to-use SDKs, and ready-made UI libraries to authenticate users to your app. It supports authentication using passwords, phone numbers, popular federated identity providers like Google,

Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito

You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline.

Dyn

Dyn

An all-in-one Managed DNS service for your registered domain names. Dyn DNS is the perfect solution for your domain name’s DNS needs, whether it is for personal or business use. It gives you complete control over your DNS zone and its associated DNS records, complete with a simple DNS management web interface.

WorkOS

WorkOS

Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code.

DNS Made Easy

DNS Made Easy

DNS Made Easy is a subsidiary of Tiggee LLC, and is a world leader in providing global IP Anycast enterprise DNS services. DNS Made Easy is currently ranked the fastest provider for 8 consecutive months and the most reliable provider.

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