🆚 Envoy vs. Squid

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.

Squid is an open-source caching proxy server that is most commonly used as a forward proxy to cache outbound internet requests, reduce bandwidth, and improve access times.

It supports proxy hierarchies and mesh caching using the Internet Cache Protocol, DNS caching, negative caching of failed requests, access control lists for traffic filtering, transparent proxying, and full request logging.

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.

• ⭐ 10th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
• 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Caching category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Envoy technology profile
• Linux Foundation company profile

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