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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.

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    What is Hexagon?

    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.

    What is linkerd?

    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.

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