Samaritan (səˈmerətn) is a client side L4 or L7 proxy, written in Golang, with the aim to provide high availability and load balancing. You can call it Sam (sam) for simplicity.
We named this project Samaritan as it saves our OPs from extreme misery:
A charitable or helpful person (with reference to Luke 10:33).
"suddenly, miraculously, a Good Samaritan leaned over and handed the cashier a dollar bill on my behalf"
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Fast, efficient, lightweight and works on the client side
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Hot restart, zero downtime
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Hot re-configuration without down time
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Good observability
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First-class Redis cluster support
- For documentation about specific topics, including introduction, quick start, architecture, etc, see docs
- Examples can be found in the examples directory.
Samaritan is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE for the full license text.