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24 alternatives to A tiny TCP load balancer

A tiny TCP load balancer 🍸. Contribute to inlets/mixctl development by creating an account on GitHub.

A tiny TCP load balancer is a lightweight tool for distributing network traffic across multiple servers. It handles TCP connections efficiently without requiring extensive system resources. The project is designed for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A tiny TCP load balancer launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A minimal TCP/IP stack. Contribute to cozis/microtcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Get public TCP LoadBalancers for local Kubernetes clusters - inlets/inlets-operator

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A minimal Fortran TCP client and server. Contribute to modern-fortran/tcp-client-server development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple Load Balancer. Contribute to JackyChiu/slb development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I recently published a small open-source project. It’s a minimal network packet analyzer written in Go — designed more like a learning toy than a replacement for Wireshark. It currently supports parsing basic protocols like TLS, DNS, and HTTP, and includes a tiny fuzzing engine to test payload responses. You can inspect raw packet content directly from the terminal. The output is colored for readability, and the code structure is kept simple and clear. The entire program is very small — just about 400 lines of Go code. I know it’s not anywhere near Wireshark’s level, and I still…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    oatpp benchmark for 2 Million fully-loaded concurrent websocket connections.

    2019 · oatpp.io · its alternatives →

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    A UDP to TCP proxy server for sending HTTP requests with zero roundtrips - TimeToogo/ff-proxy

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HTTP load balancer and cache. Contribute to CoderCookE/goaround development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A tc command wrapper. Make it easy to set up traffic control of network bandwidth/latency/packet-loss/packet-corruption/etc. to a network-interface/Docker-container(veth). - thombashi/tcconfig

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I found hping3 and nmap's nping to be far too slow in terms of sending individual, bare-minimum (40-byte) TCP SYN packets; other than inefficient socket I/O, they were also attempting to do far too much unnecessary processing in what should have otherwise been a tight execution loop. Furthermore, none of them were able to handle CIDR notations (i.e., a range of IP addresses) as their source IP parameter. Being intended for embedded devices (e.g., low-power MIPS/Arm-based routers), Blitzping only depends on standard POSIX headers and C11's libc (whether musl or gnu). To that end,…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    User space WireGuard port-forward in Rust. Contribute to aramperes/onetun development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This code is still in early beta, but i sincerley hope it will become as ubiquitous as VIM on Linux.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    C++ TCP Library - NO LONGER MAINTAINED. Contribute to Cylix/tacopie development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    the tcpkit was designed to make network packets programable with Lua script - git-hulk/tcpkit

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I often reached for `socat` when I needed to forward a TCP port from my local machine for testing, and I was curious how easy it was to write such a utility in Go. At 105 lines of Go, it was easy enough. It has limited functionality - TCP only, no port mapping, binds to all local network interfaces - but it serves its purpose, so I wanted to share this with others.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    No ops needed Load Balancers

    2017 · digitalocean.com · its alternatives →

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    Facebook's Katran looked too scary (and I don't do C++), so I thought I would investigate using XDP/eBPF to redirect packets at high speed and Go to do the control plane work of health-checking backed servers and managing configuration. With luck the resulting binary should be easy to deploy by non-developers. It's still not mature, but seems to work. Code was written in a very exploratory manner, and I'm not a developer so it is quite shocking at the moment, but I aim to improve it. It is intended to be horizontally scalable with ECMP and has been tested on service providing…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create inlets servers on the top cloud platforms. Contribute to inlets/inletsctl development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Migrated to Codeberg. Contribute to q3k/crowbar development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A personal website served from six ESP32-S3 microcontrollers: elected load balancer, virtual-MAC failover, OTA with rollback. No cloud, no CDN, no Pi. - Novotarskyi/ivan-bohun

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create inlets servers on the top cloud platforms. Contribute to inlets/inletsctl development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Always-free gateway. Pool free-tier LLMs for $0 inference.

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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