Tracking Clients with Finagle
In a Service Oriented Architecture, a service may be used by many different clients – each with with different usage patterns and performance profiles. Behin...
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Thrift Client Side Caching to Speed Up Unit Tests
One of the largest headaches associated with network system architecture is abstracting away the network. External resources are always slower and more disjo...
Reusing Finagle Server Filters on the Client
When using Thrift, Finagle Filters on the client inherit from SimpleFilter[ThriftClientRequest, Array[Byte]], while on the server they must inherit from Simp...
Finagle Query Cache with Guava
For many data services, any easy way to reduce database load is to cache calls to semi-static data (ie: append-only, or refreshed only on a set schedule), an...
Developer Friendly Thrift Request Logging
In a system of async service calls, sometimes the most indispensible debugging tool is knowing what and when network traffic is occurring. Unfortunately for ...
Ostrich. Not just for stats, also for documentation.
Ostrich is a stats collector and reporter created by Twitter, and it is a welcome addition to any Finagle (Apache Thrift) implementation. At its core it use...
Multiplexed Services in Finagle
Apache Thrift is a pretty good RPC library. Methods compose a service, and the service is hosted on a raw TCP port. Even a large implementation with a hundr...