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linkerd vs Hexagon: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Hexagon? A microservices toolkit written in Kotlin. It is a microservices toolkit written in Kotlin. Its purpose is to ease the building of services (Web applications, APIs or queue consumers) that run inside a cloud platform.
linkerd and Hexagon can be categorized as "Microservices" tools.
Some of the features offered by linkerd are:
- Adaptive load-balancing
- Fine-grained instrumentation
- Abstractions over service discovery
On the other hand, Hexagon provides the following key features:
- Simple to use
- Easy to hack
- Kotlin first
linkerd is an open source tool with 5.18K GitHub stars and 525 GitHub forks. Here's a link to linkerd's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Hexagon
Pros of linkerd
- CNCF Project3
- Service Mesh1
- Fast Integration1
- Pre-check permissions1
- Light Weight1