Ace vs PlugAttack

Ace

HTTP web server and client, supports http1 and http2 (by CrowdHailer)

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PlugAttack

A plug building toolkit for blocking and throttling abusive requests (by michalmuskala)

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Ace		PlugAttack
	Project
-	Mentions	1
304	Stars	416
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 3 years ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Elixir	Language	Elixir
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Ace

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

PlugAttack

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Exponential Backoff with Elixir
1 project | dev.to | 11 Apr 2023

Hope this will help you in your next project if an exponential backoff is needed, maybe when you are dependent on some service that rate limits requests with PlugAttack as described in this blog post.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ace and PlugAttack you can also consider the following projects:

Tube - WebSocket client library written in pure Elixir

httpotion - [Deprecated because ibrowse is not maintained] HTTP client for Elixir (use Tesla please)

http_proxy - http proxy with Elixir. wait request with multi port and forward to each URIs

explode - An easy utility for responding with standard HTTP/JSON error payloads in Plug- and Phoenix-based applications

Crawler - A high performance web crawler / scraper in Elixir.

cauldron - I wonder what kind of Elixir is boiling in there.

spell - Spell is a Web Application Messaging Protocol (WAMP) client implementation in Elixir. WAMP is an open standard WebSocket subprotocol that provides two application messaging patterns in one unified protocol: Remote Procedure Calls + Publish & Subscribe: http://wamp.ws/

neuron - A GraphQL client for Elixir

Ralitobu.Plug - Elixir Plug for Ralitobu, the Rate Limiter with Token Bucket algorithm