Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. liblb - A Study and Library of Load Balancing Algorithms launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Dispy▲8

   A python module for distributed and parallel computing

   2017 · dispy.sourceforge.net · its alternatives →

2. 2EA
   Ebbflow – A Multi-Cloud Load Balancer and SSH Proxy. Host from Anywhere▲7

   2020 · ebbflow.io · its alternatives →

3. 3
   HiveFlux + Slack▲93

   Real-time task management meets real-time communication

   2015 · blog.hiveflux.com · its alternatives →

4. 4OP
   OptDuty – PagerDuty scheduling for distributed teams▲5

   2020 · optduty.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Onyx▲7

   Distributed computation for the cloud

   2016 · its alternatives →

6. 6RA
   RateLimitAPI – API for rate limiting in distributed environments▲5

   2023 · ratelimitapi.com · its alternatives →

7. 7ED
   Event-driven, user-space and highly-scalable TCP/IP stack [pdf]▲29

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8LA
   Litewait – A Bandwidth Saving Browser▲7

   2019 · freedemo.litewait.io · its alternatives →

9. 9ZA
   ZeroQueue, A low-code queue management system▲6

   2020 · zeroqueue.dev · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Bosh▲5

    An open source tool for distributed systems

    2016 · bosh.io · its alternatives →

11. 11RA
    Ranvier, a Node.js based telnet MUD codebase▲5

    2017 · ranviermud.com · its alternatives →

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    ROOK▲9

    Open, Cloud Native, and Universal Distributed Storage

    2016 · rook.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Swimmer▲2

    An async task pooling and throttling utility for JS

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Probe API – Utilities for distributed network testing▲8

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15OA
    Overlaycloud – A New Type of Cloud Computing Platform▲9

    2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Load Balancing by Cloudflare▲5

    Safeguard from service interruptions

    2017 · cloudflare.com · its alternatives →

17. 17RA
    Routy – A clean, minimal subnetting calculator for Android▲9

    2014 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

18. 18AA
    An API for scheduling queue messages▲5

    2020 · schedulerapi.com · its alternatives →

19. 19WB
    We built rescaling for distributed stateful stream processing▲5

    2023 · bytewax.io · its alternatives →

20. 20BA
    Built a low-latency on-chain data stream: We'd love feedback▲5

    2018 · dev.tokenanalyst.io · its alternatives →

21. 21MF
    Minim – Fast, Flat and File-Based BMS▲8

    2017 · minim.one · its alternatives →

22. 22
    I presented a novel efficient streaming algorithm▲12

    This paper has been accepted to KDD2025.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    redset, a simple tool for managing distributed work in Python▲5

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Decentralized networking library for (not only) games▲9

    Lightweight Peer-to-Peer networking engine for real time applications - inetic/libclub

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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