windofthesky / tchannel

network multiplexing and framing protocol for RPC

TChannel [] (https://travis-ci.org/uber/tchannel)

Network multiplexing and framing protocol for RPC

Design goals

• Easy to implement in multiple languages, especially JS and Python.
• High performance forwarding path. Intermediaries can make a forwarding decision quickly.
• Request / response model with out of order responses. Slow requests will not block subsequent faster requests at head of line.
• Large requests/responses may/must be broken into fragments to be sent progressively.
• Optional checksums.
• Can be used to transport multiple protocols between endpoints, e.g. HTTP+JSON and Thrift.

Parts

• tchannel-protocol TChannel Protocol Documentation
• tchannel-node TChannel peer library for Node.js
• tchannel-python TChannel peer library for Python
• tchannel-go TChannel peer library for Go
• tchannel-java TChannel peer library for the JVM
• tcurl TChannel curl program, for making manual one-off requests to TChannel servers.
• tcap TChannel packet capture tool, for eavesdropping and inspecting TChannel traffic
• bufrw Node.js buffer structured reading and writing library, used for TChannel and Thrift
• thriftrw Node.js Thrift buffer reader and writer
• thriftify Node.js Thrift object serializer and deserializer with run-time Thrift IDL compiler

MIT Licenced