KYkylequest·Nov 5, 2015Submission
Hyperbahn – Service discovery and routing for large-scale microservice ops by Uber
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hyperbahn
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hyperbahn
Service discovery and routing for large scale microservice operations
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Service discovery and routing for large scale microservice operations
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| Oct 22 | 2015-10-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 23 | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 24 | 2015-10-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 25 | 2015-10-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 26 | 2015-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 27 | 2015-10-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 28 | 2015-10-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 29 | 2015-10-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 30 | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 31 | 2015-10-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 1 | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2 | 2015-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 3 | 2015-11-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 4 | 2015-11-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 5 | 2015-11-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesIDLs are awesomely useful and you can build all sorts of things on that abstraction, especially if you have a parser that produces a standard AST (I wrote a PegJS parser that takes the Thrift IDLs and creates a plain old javascript object AST that can be used for things like: (1) writing dynamic serializers/deserializers for binary data (uber/thriftrw), (2) validators (not yet written, but will both lint as well as check for backwards compatibility when IDLs are updated); (3) bash autocompletion for an RPC api via a curl-like command (soon to land in uber/tcurl))
At Uber, we started with Apache Thrift, but found many things about it limited and broken with dubious code quality for some languages. Furthermore we had more ambitious ideas like application layer sharding (uber/ringpop) and service discovery and routing (uber/hyperbahn).
We're
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still using the thrift protocols (uber/thriftrw) with our rpc library (uber/tchannel), but could have built on top of another IDL format like protobufs (v3).
For those curious about the RPC interface, just check out: https://tchannel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
The interface supports all sorts of things
This is all over TCP right now and designed for performance and service to service communication, but there is nothing preventing the addition of HTTP (via XHR or WebSockets) as a transport for allowing web apps to speak with tchannel services. I contributed to the Apache Thrift implementation that allows this (https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/lib/nodejs/lib/...). The implementation for tchannel would be similar, but rely on XHR/WS in the browser and the `http` module instead of the `net` module in NodeJS on the server. It's trivial to write a proxy frontend that relays TJSONProtocol on the frontend to a Thrift binary protocol like TBinaryProtocol or TCompactProtocol.
https://github.com/uber/hyperbahn
https://github.com/uber/tchannel
https://github.com/uber/ringpop-node
https://github.com/uber/ringpop-go
https://github.com/uber/idl
https://github.com/uber/tcurl
https://github.com/uber/tcap
etc.