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Apache Dubbo vs Kind: What are the differences?
Apache Dubbo: A high performance Java RPC framework. It is a high-performance, light weight, java based RPC framework. Dubbo offers three key functionalities, which include interface based remote call, fault tolerance & load balancing, and automatic service registration & discovery; Kind: Run local Kubernetes clusters using Docker. It is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes” It was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI..
Apache Dubbo belongs to "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" category of the tech stack, while Kind can be primarily classified under "Container Tools".
Some of the features offered by Apache Dubbo are:
- Transparent interface based RPC
- Intelligent load balancing
- Automatic service registration and discovery
On the other hand, Kind provides the following key features:
- Supports multi-node (including HA) clusters
- Supports building Kubernetes release builds from source
- Support for make / bash / docker, or bazel, in addition to pre-published builds
Apache Dubbo is an open source tool with 31.6K GitHub stars and 20.7K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apache Dubbo's open source repository on GitHub.
