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Finagle vs Netty: What are the differences?

Developers describe Finagle as "An extensible RPC system for the JVM". Finagle is an extensible RPC system for the JVM, used to construct high-concurrency servers. Finagle implements uniform client and server APIs for several protocols, and is designed for high performance and concurrency. On the other hand, Netty is detailed as "Asynchronous event-driven network application framework". Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

Finagle and Netty belong to "Concurrency Frameworks" category of the tech stack.

Finagle and Netty are both open source tools. It seems that Netty with 19.9K GitHub stars and 9.05K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Finagle with 7.16K GitHub stars and 1.27K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Netty has a broader approval, being mentioned in 11 company stacks & 14 developers stacks; compared to Finagle, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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    Fast
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    HTTP-friendly
  • 3
    Open Source
  • 9
    High Performance
  • 4
    Easy to use
  • 3
    Just like it

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      Limited resources to learn from

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    What is Finagle?

    Finagle is an extensible RPC system for the JVM, used to construct high-concurrency servers. Finagle implements uniform client and server APIs for several protocols, and is designed for high performance and concurrency.

    What is Netty?

    Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

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