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Flynn vs Modulus: What are the differences?
What is Flynn? Next generation open source platform as a service. Flynn lets you deploy apps with git push and containers. Developers can deploy any app to any cluster in seconds.
What is Modulus? Hosting, Scaling, and Data for Node.js applications. Modulus is a premier Node.js hosting platform that provides a complete technology stack for application developers. This includes custom SSL, WebSockets, MongoDB, statistics, and more.
Flynn and Modulus belong to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Flynn are:
- Flynn goes beyond 12 factor apps. Run any Linux process written in any language or framework, even stateful apps on your own servers or any public cloud.
- Scaling or adding a new cluster is simple: just add more nodes. Everything is containerized, Flynn takes care of distributing work across the cluster.
- Flynn is 100% free and open source. Flynn works great out of the box, and since Flynn is modular and API-driven it's easy to modify and swap components to suit your needs.
On the other hand, Modulus provides the following key features:
- Simple Scalability
- Powerful Statistics
- Multiple Node Versions
"Free" is the primary reason why developers consider Flynn over the competitors, whereas "Easy to set up and scale" was stated as the key factor in picking Modulus.
Flynn is an open source tool with 7.24K GitHub stars and 534 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Flynn's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Flynn
- Free6
- Supports few types of containers:libvirt-lxc, docker5
- PostgreSQL HA2
- Easy setup2
- 12-factor methodology1
Pros of Modulus
- Easy to set up and scale13
- One of the best meteor hosting providers5