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Uber’s Checkenv Detects Cross-Environment RPC Calls to Prevent Data Leakage
Uber introduces CheckEnv, a tool using graphs to detect and manage cross-environment RPC calls in microservices, enhancing system reliability and preventing unintended interactions.
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Thrift for Haskell Aims to Eliminate Bugs from RPC Code
Originally created at Facebook and now part of Apache, Thrift is an interface definition language and binary communication protocol aimed to enable efficient RPC at scale across services written in multiple languages. Facebook has recently open sourced hsthrift, which makes it possible to use Thrift in Haskell projects and take advantage of its dependent types to eliminate bugs in production.
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Apache Dubbo, a Java-Based RPC Framework, Graduates to Top-Level Project
The Apache Software Foundation recently announced Apache Dubbo as a top-level project. Apache Dubbo is an open source, remote procedure call framework based on Java. Dubbo brings key functionalities such as interface based remote call, fault tolerance and load balancing, and automatic service registration and discovery.
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Cap’n Proto Interchange Format Adds Windows Support and Many New Features
After nearly 2.5 years since its previous release, data interchange format and RPC system Cap’n Proto reached version 0.6, adding Windows support, security hardening, and more.
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Adds Linkerd, gRPC, and CoreDNS to Growing Portfolio
Since the beginning of 2017 the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has added three new projects to their portfolio for hosting and stewardship, including: linkerd, a transparent proxy ‘service mesh’ that provides service discovery, failure handling and visibility; gRPC, a language agnostic high performance RPC framework; and CoreDNS, a fast and configurable cloud native DNS server.
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Microsoft Has Open Sourced the VS Code Language Server Protocol
Microsoft has open sourced the protocol used by VS Code’s editor to communicate with the various language servers supported.
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Facebook Open Sources Data Query Language GraphQL
Facebook's Lee Byron talks to InfoQ's Rags Srinivas about GraphQL that powers billions of API calls on the site.
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Uber Unveils its Realtime Market Platform
Matt Ranney, Chief Systems Architect at Uber, gave an overview of their dispatch system, responsible for matching Uber's drivers and riders. Ranney explained the driving forces that led to a rewrite of this system. He described the architectural principles that underpin it, several of the algorithms implemented and why Uber decided to design and implement their own RPC protocol.
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Google Releases gRPC, a HTTP/2 RPC Framework for Microservices
Google has opened sourced gRPC, a RPC framework used internally to connect cloud microservices. gRPC comes with support for 10 languages, making it attractive for creating back-end cloud services for mobile applications.