February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
356 pages
9h 10m
English
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Netflix Ribbon
The Ribbon is an open source project created and maintained by the Netflix company. The project is licensed under Apache 2.0 and can be used for commercial purposes.
The Ribbon provides a client-side software load balancing algorithm for the IPC (Inter-Process Communication). The project supports most popular protocols, such as TCP, UDP, and HTTP in an asynchronous manner.
There are more interesting features, such as service discovery integration, which enables integration in dynamic and elastic environments such as the cloud. For this purpose, we will look at our Eureka server. Both projects are maintained by the Netflix team. It fits well for our use case.
Another interesting feature is fault tolerance. The Ribbon client ...