🆚 Envoy vs. Sōzu

Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.

It provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying, service discovery integration, observability with distributed tracing and rich metrics, and dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.

Sōzu is an HTTP reverse proxy with runtime configurability and hot upgrades, built in Rust and used by Clever Cloud.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Load Balancers category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Envoy technology profile
• Linux Foundation company profile

• Sōzu technology profile
• Clever Cloud company profile