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LaunchDarkly vs linkerd: What are the differences?
Developers describe LaunchDarkly as "Feature Management Platform". Serving over 200 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. LaunchDarkly helps eliminate risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle. On the other hand, linkerd is detailed as "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.
LaunchDarkly can be classified as a tool in the "Feature Flags Management" category, while linkerd is grouped under "Microservices Tools".
Some of the features offered by LaunchDarkly are:
- Create custom environments
- Team management
- Create goals
On the other hand, linkerd provides the following key features:
- Adaptive load-balancing
- Fine-grained instrumentation
- Abstractions over service discovery
linkerd is an open source tool with 5K GitHub stars and 499 GitHub forks. Here's a link to linkerd's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of LaunchDarkly
- Easy to use UI6
Pros of linkerd
- CNCF Project3
- Service Mesh1
- Fast Integration1
- Pre-check permissions1
- Light Weight1