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What is Envoy? C++ front/service proxy. Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.

What is HAProxy? The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer. HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Envoy and HAProxy can be categorized as "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" tools.

Envoy is an open source tool with 10.2K GitHub stars and 1.58K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Envoy's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, HAProxy has a broader approval, being mentioned in 457 company stacks & 211 developers stacks; compared to Envoy, which is listed in 18 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.

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Pros of Envoy

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GRPC-Web

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Load balancer
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High performance
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Very fast
58
Proxying for tcp and http
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SSL termination
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Open source
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Reliable
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Free
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Well-Documented
12
Very popular
7
Runs health checks on backends
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Suited for very high traffic web sites
6
Scalable
5
Ready to Docker
4
Powers many world's most visited sites
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Simple
2
Work with NTLM
2
Ssl offloading
1
Available as a plugin for OPNsense

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Becomes your single point of failure

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What is Envoy?

Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.

What is HAProxy?

HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

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Simplifying Web Deploys

May 6 2020 at 6:34AM

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Scaling PostgreSQL at Thumbtack: Load Balancing And Health Che...

Dec 8 2017 at 12:20PM

Thumbtack

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How Sentry Receives 20 Billion Events Per Month While Preparin...

Nov 8 2017 at 5:09PM

Sentry

+31

36154

How LaunchDarkly Serves Over 4 Billion Feature Flags Daily

Sep 9 2016 at 2:06AM

LaunchDarkly

+30

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The Stack That Helped Medium Scale To 2.6 Millennia Of Reading...

Oct 22 2015 at 8:05AM

Medium

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Scaling Clearbit to 2M API Requests Per Day

Sep 4 2015 at 8:23AM

Clearbit

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5855

How imgix Built A Stack To Serve 100,000 Images Per Second

Aug 28 2015 at 9:58AM

imgix

+26

10585

How 500px serves up over 500TB of high res photos

May 15 2015 at 3:43PM

500px

+44

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What are some alternatives to Envoy and HAProxy?

Istio

Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.

NGINX

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

linkerd

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.

Trailblazer

Trailblazer is a thin layer on top of Rails. It gently enforces encapsulation, an intuitive code structure and gives you an object-oriented architecture. In a nutshell: Trailblazer makes you write logicless models that purely act as data objects, don't contain callbacks, nested attributes, validations or domain logic. It removes bulky controllers and strong_parameters by supplying additional layers to hold that code and completely replaces helpers.

Traefik

A modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically.

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