SmartStack vs. Serf vs. SkyDNS


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Open Source Service Discovery
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Description

What is SmartStack?

Scaling a web infrastructure requires services, and building a service-oriented infrastructure is hard. Make it EASY, with SmartStack’s automated, transparent service discovery and registration: cruise control for your distributed infrastructure.

What is Serf?

Serf is a service discovery and orchestration tool that is decentralized, highly available, and fault tolerant. Serf runs on every major platform: Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is extremely lightweight: it uses 5 to 10 MB of resident memory and primarily communicates using infrequent UDP messages.

What is SkyDNS?

SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services. It leverages Raft for high-availability and consensus, and utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights (more info here: http://blog.gopheracademy.com/skydns).

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Pros
Why do developers choose SmartStack?
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Cons
What are the cons of using SmartStack?
No Cons submitted yet for SmartStack
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What are the cons of using Serf?
No Cons submitted yet for Serf
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What are the cons of using SkyDNS?
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Pricing
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Companies
What companies use SmartStack?
4 companies on StackShare use SmartStack
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What companies use Serf?
4 companies on StackShare use Serf
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What companies use SkyDNS?
1 companies on StackShare use SkyDNS
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Integrations
What tools integrate with SmartStack?
1 tools on StackShare integrate with SmartStack
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What are some alternatives to SmartStack, Serf, and SkyDNS?

  • Consul - A tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration
  • Zookeeper - Because coordinating distributed systems is a Zoo
  • etcd - A distributed consistent key-value store for shared configuration and service discovery
  • Eureka - AWS Service registry for resilient mid-tier load balancing and failover.

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