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Squid vs Zipkin

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

Squid

Squid

Network & Admin

Squid is an open source web proxy and caching server. It speeds up access to web pages by caching and reusing frequently accessed web content. Squid helps reduce bandwidth usage and server load.

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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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