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Google Traffic Director vs node-http-proxy: What are the differences?
Developers describe Google Traffic Director as "Enterprise-ready traffic management for open service mesh". A powerful abstraction that's become increasingly popular to deliver microservices and modern applications. Provides policy, configuration, and intelligence to service proxies. On the other hand, node-http-proxy is detailed as "A full-featured http proxy for node.js". node-http-proxy is an HTTP programmable proxying library that supports websockets. It is suitable for implementing components such as proxies and load balancers.
Google Traffic Director and node-http-proxy can be categorized as "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" tools.
node-http-proxy is an open source tool with 10.3K GitHub stars and 1.54K GitHub forks. Here's a link to node-http-proxy's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Google Traffic Director
Pros of node-http-proxy
- Opensource1
- Programmable1