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Helidon vs linkerd: What are the differences?

What is Helidon? Java libraries for writing microservices (by Oracle). It is a collection of Java libraries for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Netty.

What is linkerd? 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.

Helidon and linkerd can be categorized as "Microservices" tools.

Some of the features offered by Helidon are:

Reactive Microframework
Tiny Footprint
Functional Style

On the other hand, linkerd provides the following key features:

Adaptive load-balancing
Fine-grained instrumentation
Abstractions over service discovery

linkerd is an open source tool with 5.28K GitHub stars and 519 GitHub forks. Here's a link to linkerd's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is Helidon?

It is a collection of Java libraries for writing microservices that run on a fast web core powered by Netty.

What is linkerd?

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.

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What are some alternatives to Helidon and linkerd?

Istio

Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.

Zuul

It is the front door for all requests from devices and websites to the backend of the Netflix streaming application. As an edge service application, It is built to enable dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security. Routing is an integral part of a microservice architecture.

Jersey

It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.

Azure Service Fabric

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud apps.

Dapr

It is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, stateless and stateful microservices that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.

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