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Polipo vs Zipkin

A side-by-side look at Polipo and Zipkin. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Polipo

Polipo

Network & Admin

Polipo is a small and fast caching web proxy. It is designed to be used by one person or a small group of people. It caches websites, images, videos and other content to improve browsing speed and save bandwidth.

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Zipkin

Zipkin

Development

Zipkin is an open source distributed tracing system. It is used to gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures. Zipkin helps gather timing data related to inter-service calls and provides tools to visualize this data.

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