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Katran vs node-http-proxy: What are the differences?
What is Katran? A high performance layer 4 load balancer. katran is a cpp library and bpf program to build high performance layer 4 load balancing forwarding plane. katran leverages XDP infrastructure from the kernel to provide in-kernel facility for fast packet's processing.
What is node-http-proxy? A full-featured http proxy for node.js. node-http-proxy is an HTTP programmable proxying library that supports websockets. It is suitable for implementing components such as proxies and load balancers.
Katran and node-http-proxy can be primarily classified as "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" tools.
node-http-proxy is an open source tool with 10.3K GitHub stars and 1.54K GitHub forks. Here's a link to node-http-proxy's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Katran
Pros of node-http-proxy
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