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linkerd vs Expressive: What are the differences?
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; Expressive: Build PHP microservices and web applications in minutes. Make your code flexible and robust, using the dependency injection container of your choice.
linkerd and Expressive belong to "Microservices Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by linkerd are:
- Adaptive load-balancing
- Fine-grained instrumentation
- Abstractions over service discovery
On the other hand, Expressive provides the following key features:
- PSR-15 and PSR-7
- Routing
- Dependency Injection Templating
linkerd and Expressive are both open source tools. linkerd with 5.07K GitHub stars and 511 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Expressive with 767 GitHub stars and 222 GitHub forks.
Pros of Expressive
Pros of linkerd
- CNCF Project3
- Service Mesh1
- Fast Integration1
- Pre-check permissions1
- Light Weight1