• stable branch: v1.7.x
• development branch: master

Official site: http://rpcx.io

Notice: etcd

since rpcx 1.7.6, some plugins have been moved to the independent project:

• etcd plugin has been moved to rpcx-etcd
• zookeeper plugin has been moved to rpcx-zookeeper
• consul plugin has been moved to rpcx-consul
• redis plugin has been moved to rpcx-redis
• influxdb plugin has been moved to rpcx-plugins
• opentelemetry plugin has been moved to rpcx-plugins

Announce

A tcpdump-like tool added: rpcxdump。 You can use it to debug communications between rpcx services and clients.

Cross-Languages

you can use other programming languages besides Go to access rpcx services.

• rpcx-gateway: You can write clients in any programming languages to call rpcx services via rpcx-gateway
• http invoke: you can use the same http requests to access rpcx gateway
• Java Services/Clients: You can use rpcx-java to implement/access rpcx services via raw protocol.
• rust rpcx: You can write rpcx services in rust by rpcx-rs

If you can write Go methods, you can also write rpc services. It is so easy to write rpc applications with rpcx.

Installation

install the basic features:

go get -v github.com/smallnest/rpcx/...

If you want to use quic、kcp registry, use those tags to go get 、 go build or go run. For example, if you want to use all features, you can:

go get -v -tags "quic kcp" github.com/smallnest/rpcx/...

tags:

• quic: support quic transport
• kcp: support kcp transport

Which companies are using rpcx?

Features

rpcx is a RPC framework like Alibaba Dubbo and Weibo Motan.

rpcx is created for targets:

1. Simple: easy to learn, easy to develop, easy to integrate and easy to deploy
2. Performance: high performance (>= grpc-go)
3. Cross-platform: support raw slice of bytes, JSON, Protobuf and MessagePack. Theoretically it can be used with java, php, python, c/c++, node.js, c# and other platforms
4. Service discovery and service governance: support zookeeper, etcd and consul.

It contains below features

• Support raw Go functions. There's no need to define proto files.
• Pluggable. Features can be extended such as service discovery, tracing.
• Support TCP, HTTP, QUIC and KCP
• Support multiple codecs such as JSON, Protobuf, MessagePack and raw bytes.
• Service discovery. Support peer2peer, configured peers, zookeeper, etcd, consul and mDNS.
• Fault tolerance：Failover, Failfast, Failtry.
• Load banlancing：support Random, RoundRobin, Consistent hashing, Weighted, network quality and Geography.
• Support Compression.
• Support passing metadata.
• Support Authorization.
• Support heartbeat and one-way request.
• Other features: metrics, log, timeout, alias, circuit breaker.
• Support bidirectional communication.
• Support access via HTTP so you can write clients in any programming languages.
• Support API gateway.
• Support backup request, forking and broadcast.

rpcx uses a binary protocol and platform-independent, which means you can develop services in other languages such as Java, python, nodejs, and you can use other prorgramming languages to invoke services developed in Go.

There is a UI manager: rpcx-ui.

Performance

Test results show rpcx has better performance than other rpc framework except standard rpc lib.

The benchmark code is at rpcx-benchmark.

Listen to others, but test by yourself.

Test Environment

• CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz, 32 cores
• Memory: 32G
• Go: 1.9.0
• OS: CentOS 7 / 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64

Use

• protobuf
• the client and the server on the same server
• 581 bytes payload
• 500/2000/5000 concurrent clients
• mock processing time: 0ms, 10ms and 30ms

Test Result

mock 0ms process time

mock 10ms process time

mock 30ms process time

Examples

You can find all examples at rpcxio/rpcx-examples.

The below is a simple example.

Server

    // define example.Arith
    ……

    s := server.NewServer()
	s.RegisterName("Arith", new(example.Arith), "")
	s.Serve("tcp", addr)

Client

    // prepare requests
    ……

    d, err := client.NewPeer2PeerDiscovery("tcp@"+addr, "")
	xclient := client.NewXClient("Arith", client.Failtry, client.RandomSelect, d, client.DefaultOption)
	defer xclient.Close()
	err = xclient.Call(context.Background(), "Mul", args, reply, nil)

Contributors

Contribute

see contributors.

Welcome to contribute:

• submit issues or requirements
• send PRs
• write projects to use rpcx
• write tutorials or articles to introduce rpcx

License

Apache License, Version 2.0