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Section vs Tower: What are the differences?
Section: Run compute workloads on a distributed edge. Edge Compute Platform gives Dev and Ops engineers the access and control they need to run compute workloads on a distributed edge; Tower: The most powerful Git client for Mac & Windows. Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.
Section can be classified as a tool in the "Web Cache" category, while Tower is grouped under "Source Code Management Desktop Apps".
Some of the features offered by Section are:
- Varnish Cache
- Nginx/Lua
- SiteSpect
On the other hand, Tower provides the following key features:
- Clone & create repos with a click - Manage your GitHub, Bitbucket & Beanstalk accounts from within Tower
- Open repos quickly - Tower's "Quick Open" dialog finds and opens repositories in no time
- Automate the boring stuff - Fetching and stashing are automatically done for you, if you wish
"Realtime stats" is the primary reason why developers consider Section over the competitors, whereas "Git" was stated as the key factor in picking Tower.
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Pros of Tower
Pros of Section
- Makes the hard parts of varnish easy10
- Realtime stats10
- No more hair pulling configuring caching8
- Git support8
- Easy setup7
- Qa testing6
- Test Varnish Settings in Dev & Prod5
- Kibana logs4
- Graphite out of the box3
- Professional, rock solid platform, easy to user2
Pros of Tower
- Git19
- Just works16
- Version control10
- Awesome6
- Simple layout6
- Multiple windows4
- Automatic repo discovery3
- Multiple tabs3
- Submodule support2
- Github integration2
- Full featured client2
- Uses standard git terminology and methods2
- Gitflow support2
- Interactive stage or discard by hunks or lines2
- SAS1
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Cons of Section
Cons of Tower
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Cons of Tower
- Expensive5
- Subscription based4
- No side by side diff1
- Merge conflict resolution impossible/unclear0
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What is Section?
Edge Compute Platform gives Dev and Ops engineers the access and control they need to run compute workloads on a distributed edge.
What is Tower?
Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.
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What are some alternatives to Section and Tower?
Varnish
Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture.
Apache Traffic Server
It is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 compliant caching proxy server.Improve your response time, while reducing server load and bandwidth needs by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages, images, and web ser
Squid
Squid reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Nuster
nuster is a high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy.