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Welcome to the ribbon wiki!

Ribbon plays an critical role in supporting inter-process communication in the cloud. The library includes the Netflix’ client side load balancers and clients for middle tier services.

Ribbon provides the following features:

• Multiple and pluggable load balancing rules
• Integration with service discovery
• Built-in failure resiliency
• Cloud enabled
• Clients integrated with load balancers
• Archaius configuration driven client factory

There are three sub projects:

• ribbon-core: includes load balancer and client interface definitions, common load balancer implementations, integration of client with load balancers and client factory.
• ribbon-eureka: includes load balancer implementations based on Eureka client, which is the library for service registration and discovery.
• ribbon-httpclient: includes the JSR-311 based implementation of REST client integrated with load balancers.