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linkerd vs Netflix OSS: What are the differences?
Developers describe linkerd 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. On the other hand, Netflix OSS is detailed as "A set of frameworks and libraries to solve distributed-systems problems at scale". It provides tools and services to get the most out of your (big) data. It also provides runtime containers, libraries and services that power microservices.
linkerd and Netflix OSS belong to "Microservices Tools" category of the tech stack.
linkerd is an open source tool with 5.04K GitHub stars and 508 GitHub forks. Here's a link to linkerd's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, linkerd has a broader approval, being mentioned in 11 company stacks & 16 developers stacks; compared to Netflix OSS, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
Pros of linkerd
- CNCF Project3
- Service Mesh1
- Fast Integration1
- Pre-check permissions1
- Light Weight1