README.md

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An industrial-grade RPC framework used throughout Baidu, with 1,000,000+ instances(not counting clients) and thousands kinds of services. "brpc" means "better RPC".

You can use it to:

• Build a server that can talk in multiple protocols (on same port), or access all sorts of services
  • restful http/https, h2/gRPC. using http/h2 in brpc is much more friendly than libcurl. Access protobuf-based protocols with HTTP/h2+json, probably from another language.
  • redis and memcached, thread-safe, more friendly and performant than the official clients.
  • rtmp/flv/hls, for building streaming services.
  • hadoop_rpc (may be opensourced)
  • rdma support (will be opensourced)
  • thrift support, thread-safe, more friendly and performant than the official clients.
  • all sorts of protocols used in Baidu: baidu_std, streaming_rpc, hulu_pbrpc, sofa_pbrpc, nova_pbrpc, public_pbrpc, ubrpc and nshead-based ones.
  • Build HA distributed services using an industrial-grade implementation of RAFT consensus algorithm which is opensourced at braft
• Servers can handle requests synchronously or asynchronously.
• Clients can access servers synchronously, asynchronously, semi-synchronously, or use combo channels to simplify sharded or parallel accesses declaratively.
• Debug services via http, and run cpu, heap and contention profilers.
• Get better latency and throughput.
• Extend brpc with the protocols used in your organization quickly, or customize components, including naming services (dns, zk, etcd), load balancers (rr, random, consistent hashing)

Try it!

• Read overview to know where brpc can be used and its advantages.
• Read getting started for building steps and play with examples.
• Docs:
  • Performance benchmark
  • bvar
    • bvar_c++
  • bthread
    • bthread or not
    • thread-local
    • Execution Queue
  • Client
    • Basics
    • Error code
    • Combo channels
    • Access http/h2
    • Access gRPC
    • Access thrift
    • Access UB
    • Streaming RPC
    • Access redis
    • Access memcached
    • Backup request
    • Dummy server
  • Server
    • Basics
    • Serve http/h2
    • Serve gRPC
    • Serve thrift
    • Serve Nshead
    • Debug server issues
    • Server push
    • Avalanche
    • Auto ConcurrencyLimiter
    • Media Server
    • json2pb
  • Builtin Services
    • status
    • vars
    • connections
    • flags
    • rpcz
    • cpu_profiler
    • heap_profiler
    • contention_profiler
  • Tools
    • rpc_press
    • rpc_replay
    • rpc_view
    • benchmark_http
    • parallel_http
  • Others
    • IOBuf
    • Streaming Log
    • FlatMap
    • brpc外功修炼宝典(training material)
    • A tutorial on building large-scale services(training material)
    • brpc internal(training material)
  • RPC in depth
    • New Protocol
    • Atomic instructions
    • IO
    • Threading Overview
    • Load Balancing
    • Locality-aware
    • Consistent Hashing
    • Memory Management
    • Timer keeping
    • bthread_id
  • Use cases inside Baidu
    • 百度地图api入口
    • 联盟DSP
    • ELF学习框架
    • 云平台代理服务

Contribute code

Please refer to here.

Feedback and Getting involved

• Report bugs, ask questions or give suggestions by Github Issues
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