Eureka vs. Serf vs. SkyDNS


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Open Source Service Discovery
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Open Source Service Discovery

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Description

What is Eureka?

Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers.

What is Serf?

Serf is a service discovery and orchestration tool that is decentralized, highly available, and fault tolerant. Serf runs on every major platform: Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is extremely lightweight: it uses 5 to 10 MB of resident memory and primarily communicates using infrequent UDP messages.

What is SkyDNS?

SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services. It leverages Raft for high-availability and consensus, and utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights (more info here: http://blog.gopheracademy.com/skydns).

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Pros
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Why do developers choose SkyDNS?
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Cons
What are the cons of using Eureka?
No Cons submitted yet for Eureka
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What are the cons of using Serf?
No Cons submitted yet for Serf
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What are the cons of using SkyDNS?
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Pricing
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Companies
What companies use Eureka?
11 companies on StackShare use Eureka
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What companies use Serf?
4 companies on StackShare use Serf
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What companies use SkyDNS?
1 companies on StackShare use SkyDNS
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Integrations
What tools integrate with Eureka?
2 tools on StackShare integrate with Eureka
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What are some alternatives to Eureka, Serf, and SkyDNS?

  • Consul - A tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration
  • Zookeeper - Because coordinating distributed systems is a Zoo
  • etcd - A distributed consistent key-value store for shared configuration and service discovery
  • SmartStack - Automated service discovery and registration framework

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