TChannel 
Network multiplexing and framing protocol for RPC
- Read the Docs
- Languages: Node.js, Python, Go, Java
- Questions: Open a Github issue
- Uber's OSS website
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 TChannel Protocol Documentation
- tchannel-node TChannel
peer library for Node.js - tchannel-python
TChannel peer library for Python - tchannel-go
TChannel peer library for Go - tchannel-java
TChannel peer library for the JVM - tcurl TChannel curl program, for making manual
one-off requests to TChannel servers - tcap TChannel packet capture tool, for
eavesdropping and inspecting TChannel traffic