Finagle: A Protocol-Agnostic RPC System

Finagle is a protocol-agnostic, asynchronous RPC system for the JVM that makes it easy to build robust clients and servers in Java, Scala, or any JVM-hosted language. Rendering even the simplest web page on twitter.com requires the collaboration of dozens of network services speaking many different protocols. For example, in order to render the home page, the application issues requests to the Soc

[yass]

" Finagle provides a robust implementation of: connection pools, with throttling to avoid TCP connection churn; failure detectors, to identify slow or crashed hosts; failover strategies, to direct traffic away from unhealthy hosts; load-balancers, including “least-connections” "

[letsspeak]

Finagle: A Protocol-Agnostic RPC System