BAbasementcat·Jul 20, 2023
Bond over gRPC appears to have been deprecated.
https://github.com/microsoft/bond/issues/1131
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Bond was a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. The open-source project ended on March 31, 2025.
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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9 sourcesI wonder why they didn’t use MS’ protobuf clone, bond: https://github.com/microsoft/bond
When I was at MS, it was definitely preferred over protobuf. IIRC it was also used internally as the wire format for gRPC. I guess LinkedIn is still kind of doing their own thing.
In LinkedIn adopts protocol buffers and reduces latency up to 60%The Haskell wiki has a page called "Haskell in industry" [0] which lists all the people using Haskell in the real-world.
Some notable ones include:
* Facebook Haxl, an abstraction around remote data access [1]
* Microsoft Bond, a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data [2]
* Google Ganeti, a cluster virtual server management tool [3]
* Intel Haskell research compiler, a custom Haskell compiler used internally at Intel Labs [4]
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[0]: https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry
[1]: https://code.facebook.com/projects/854888367872565/haxl/
[2]: https://github.com/Microsoft/bond
[3]: https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/
[4]: http://www.leafpetersen.com/leaf/publications/hs2013/hrc-pap...
In Becoming Productive in HaskellFor those not in the know, Microsoft drives much of the development of GHC (the Haskell compiler) and other core projects through Microsoft Research.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719456
It looks like the Bond compiler is written in Haskell.
https://github.com/Microsoft/bond/tree/master/compiler
In Microsoft BondI work at MSFT too, and have been involved with open sourcing a major project, called Bond[1]. I'm happy to chat about this offline, if you like. Email is in the profile.
The short answer is that there are divisions in the company with a direct imperative to open source things, so if your manager is willing to encourage this (easy enough to figure out), the answer is often yes. Like almost every company, we tend to open source tools but not products (e.g., yes to Orleans, but no to the game it supports, Halo), so from there it's a matter of finding a group that has such tools, or is open to developing them.
Felix (who works for my old boss -- hi Felix!) is a special case. He works for a team called strategic engagements, whose job (I hope he'll correct me if I'm wrong) is specifically to engage with the public, usually on their own terms,
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which often involves non-MSFT tech. _That_ is an uncommon job, but if you want to talk to people in the group, just ping me when you get here and I'll put you in touch with the dev manager for the group.
[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/bond
Microsoft open sources internal schematized data framework 'Bond' on GitHub
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