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Section vs Squid: What are the differences?

Developers describe Section as "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. On the other hand, Squid is detailed as "A caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more". 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.

Section and Squid can be primarily classified as "Web Cache" tools.

Squid is an open source tool with 578 GitHub stars and 202 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Squid's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Section
Pros of Squid
  • 10
    Makes the hard parts of varnish easy
  • 10
    Realtime stats
  • 8
    No more hair pulling configuring caching
  • 8
    Git support
  • 7
    Easy setup
  • 6
    Qa testing
  • 5
    Test Varnish Settings in Dev & Prod
  • 4
    Kibana logs
  • 3
    Graphite out of the box
  • 2
    Professional, rock solid platform, easy to user
  • 4
    Easy to config
  • 2
    Web application accelerator
  • 2
    Cluster
  • 2
    Very Fast
  • 1
    ICP
  • 1
    High-performance
  • 1
    Very Stable
  • 1
    Open Source
  • 1
    Widely Used
  • 1
    Great community
  • 1
    ESI
  • 0
    Qq

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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 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.

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What are some alternatives to Section and Squid?
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
Nuster
nuster is a high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy.
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