https://github.com/uber/tchannel

network multiplexing and framing protocol for RPC
https://github.com/uber/tchannel

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network multiplexing and framing protocol for RPC

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/uber/tchannel
• Owner: uber
• License: mit
• Archived: true
• Created: 2014-12-23T21:06:57.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-05-03T16:14:01.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-29T01:42:16.575Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Thrift
• Homepage:
• Size: 7.9 MB
• Stars: 1,154
• Watchers: 2,720
• Forks: 129
• Open Issues: 78
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# TChannel [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/uber/tchannel.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/uber/tchannel)

This project is no longer active. See https://github.com/uber/tchannel/issues/1428.

Network multiplexing and framing protocol for RPC

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* [Read the Docs][RTD]

* Languages: [Node.js][node], [Python][python], [Go][go], [Java][java]

* Questions: Open a [Github issue][issues]

* Uber's [OSS website][oss]

## Overview

TChannel is a networking framing protocol used for general RPC, supporting out-of-order responses at extremely high performance where intermediaries can make a forwarding decision quickly. It is easy to implement in multiple languages, especially JavaScript and Python.

## Design Goals

- Easy implementation in multiple languages

- High performance forwarding path where intermediaries can make forwarding

  decisions quickly

- Request/response model with out-of-order responses so that slow requests don't

  block subsequent faster requests at the head of the line

- Ability of large requests/responses to be broken into fragments and sent

  progressively

- Optional checksums

- Ability to transport multiple protocols between endpoints (e.g., HTTP+JSON

  and Thrift)

## Components

- [tchannel-protocol](https://github.com/uber/tchannel/tree/master/docs/protocol.md) TChannel Protocol Documentation

- [tchannel-node](https://github.com/uber/tchannel-node) TChannel

  peer library for Node.js

- [tchannel-python](https://github.com/uber/tchannel-python)

  TChannel peer library for Python

- [tchannel-go](https://github.com/uber/tchannel-go)

  TChannel peer library for Go

- [tchannel-java](https://github.com/uber/tchannel-java)

  TChannel peer library for the JVM

- [tcurl](https://github.com/uber/tcurl) TChannel curl program, for making manual

  one-off requests to TChannel servers

- [tcap](https://github.com/uber/tcap/) TChannel packet capture tool, for

  eavesdropping and inspecting TChannel traffic

[Thrift]: https://thrift.apache.org/

[node]: https://github.com/uber/tchannel-node

[python]: https://github.com/uber/tchannel-python

[go]: https://github.com/uber/tchannel-go

[java]: https://github.com/uber/tchannel-java

[RTD]: http://tchannel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

[issues]: https://github.com/uber/hyperbahn/issues

[oss]: https://uber.github.io/

## MIT Licensed