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linkerd vs Micro: What are the differences?

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; Micro: A microservice toolkit. Micro provides the core requirements for building and managing microservices. It consists of a set of libraries and tools which are primarily geared towards development in the programming language Go, however looks to solve for other languages via HTTP using a Sidecar.

linkerd and Micro belong to "Microservices Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by linkerd are:

Adaptive load-balancing
Fine-grained instrumentation
Abstractions over service discovery

On the other hand, Micro provides the following key features:

API
CLI
Web UI

linkerd and Micro are both open source tools. It seems that Micro with 6.45K GitHub stars and 528 forks on GitHub has more adoption than linkerd with 5.01K GitHub stars and 501 GitHub forks.

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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.

What is Micro?

Micro is a framework for cloud native development. Micro addresses the key requirements for building cloud native services. It leverages the microservices architecture pattern and provides a set of services which act as the building blocks

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What tools integrate with linkerd?

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What are some alternatives to linkerd and Micro?

Istio

Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.

HAProxy

HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

Hystrix

Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable.

Consul

Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.

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