ribbon
A battle-tested client-side IPC library with built-in load balancing, fault tolerance, and support for HTTP/TCP/UDP protocols.
What is ribbon?
Ribbon is a client-side Inter-Process Communication (IPC) library developed by Netflix for building resilient distributed systems. It provides load balancing, fault tolerance, and multi-protocol support (HTTP/TCP/UDP) for remote service calls in cloud environments. The library helps applications handle service discovery, traffic distribution, and failure scenarios in microservices architectures.
Java developers building cloud-native microservices architectures who need reliable service-to-service communication with built-in load balancing and fault tolerance. Teams using or migrating from Netflix OSS stack components.
Ribbon offers battle-tested production reliability from Netflix's scale, with modular components that can be used independently. It provides comprehensive load balancing and fault tolerance features out-of-the-box, integrated with the broader Netflix OSS ecosystem including Eureka and Hystrix.
Overview
Ribbon is a Inter Process Communication (remote procedure calls) library with built in software load balancers. The primary usage model involves REST calls with various serialization scheme support.
Use Cases
Best For
- Adding client-side load balancing to RESTful service calls
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