ranch VS cowlib

Compare ranch vs cowlib and see what are their differences.

ranch

Socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols. (by ninenines)

cowlib

Support library for manipulating Web protocols. (by ninenines)
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ranch cowlib
3 1
1,175 274
1.0% 1.8%
5.6 4.4
4 months ago about 1 month ago
Erlang Erlang
ISC License ISC License
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ranch

Posts with mentions or reviews of ranch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-10.

cowlib

Posts with mentions or reviews of cowlib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-10.
  • Oh Erlang... where have you been all my life?
    4 projects | /r/erlang | 10 Dec 2021
    RE: HTTP/Web Sockets/TCP/UDP/etc. - check out NineNines libraries: Ranch (TCP Socket Acceptor), Cowboy (HTTP Server), Gun (HTTP client), and CowLib (General HTTP/SPDY library) are pretty good from what I hear.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ranch and cowlib you can also consider the following projects:

cowboy - Small, fast, modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.

gun - HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, Websocket client (and more) for Erlang/OTP.

hackney - simple HTTP client in Erlang

voomex - Send and receive SMPP messages via HTTP API

telemetry - Dynamic dispatching library for metrics and instrumentations.

ast_ninja - The Elixir AST explorer

Tino - A one-of-a-kind, stupid fast, Python API using Redis Protocol and MsgPack

CouchDB - Seamless multi-master syncing database with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, designed for reliability

smppex_telemetry - Library for tracing SMPP session events with telemetry

SMPPEX - ✉️ SMPP 3.4 protocol and framework implementation in Elixir