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11,171 | 32,765 | |
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about 2 hours ago | 4 days ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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gRPC
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 12 February 2024
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Reference Count, Don't Garbage Collect
That's not true at all. Case in point In general, this is not a problem that AGC can solve. The language can help (something Java is admittedly particularly bad at) but even so, there'll always be avenues for leaks. That's just the nature of shared things. Interestingly, in the linked grpc case, the leaked memory is only half the problem -- AGC doesn't help at all with the leaked HTTP2 connection.
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Distroless Alpine
I've trialled my new image with an existing project via JLink that's heavy on Netty and gRPC the image works great (with a small tweak to exclude grpc-netty-shaded due to grpc-java#9083).
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What are the user agents?
When developing an application, the vast majority of code is written by other people. We import that code and make use of it to get whatever we need done. In this case, the developer of an various android applications are using grpc-java.
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Buf raises $93M to deprecate REST/JSON
`proto_library` for building the `.bin` file from protos works great. Generating stubs/messages for "all" languages does not. Each language does not want to implement gRPC rules, the gRPC team does not want to implement rules for each language. Sort of a deadlock situation. For example:
- C++: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/bazel/cc_grpc_libra...
- Python: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/bazel/python_rules....
- ObjC: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/bazel/objc_grpc_lib...
- Java: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/blob/master/java_grpc_libr...
- Go (different semantics than all of the other): https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/blob/master/proto/def...
But there's also no real cohesion within the community. The biggest effort to date has been in https://github.com/stackb/rules_proto which integrates with gazelle.
tl;dr: Low alignment results in diverging implementations that are complicated to understand for newcomers. Buff's approach is much more appealing as it's a "this is the one way to do the right thing" and having it just work by detecting `proto_library` and doing all of the linting/registry stuff automagically in CI would be fantastic.
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grpc_bench: open-source, objective gRPC benchmark
Small clarification (to my understanding, I'm not a Java Guru) on why Java got on top - those Java implementations use something called Direct Executor. It's super performant when there's no chance of a blocking operation. But if you are to do anything more than echo service, you might be in trouble. Other implementations probably don't suffer from the same constraint. The related discussion can be found in this PR.
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Android Java GRPC Tutorial
clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java
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GRPC
If you do streaming then the best option would be to use a so called manual flow control. You can find an example here.
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High performing APIs with gRPC
Another interesting link is their official grpc-java benchmarks project, which is also used in the benchmark I've posted you.
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Java 16 EA Alpine & JLink vs Graal
Both JLink (gRPC#3522) and Graal have some issues; I'm especially concerned about the Serial GC in Graal so will be putting that under some stress soon to see if that confirms my suspicions. I'll also be good when some Java 16 JRE Alpine images appear as the JDK is too bloaty.
Netty
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Reactor Netty: UDP DNS client example
Code of netty is here and using following library
- Netty: Asynchronous event-driven network application framework
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New scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient open-source MQTT broker
We use Netty (https://netty.io/) as the source of the MQTT communication, and we build the MQTT features the MQTT broker should support ourselves on top of that.
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Modern Async Primitives on iOS, Android, and the Web
In this space, we also have the somewhat related term blocking. Java's NIO library is one well-known non-blocking tool used for managing multiple tasks on a single Java thread. When listening to sockets, most of the time a thread is just blocked, doing nothing until it receives some data. So, it's efficient to use a single thread for monitoring many sockets, to increase the likelihood of the thread having some actual work to do. The Selector API does this but is notoriously challenging to program well. Instead, developers use frameworks like Netty which abstract some of NIO's complexity and layer on some best practices.
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An investigative journey through concurrent data structures
DirectByteBuffer exhibits an intriguing behavior: it deallocates its backing memory during the finalization process, which occurs after garbage collection (GC) cycles. This poses an issue if your system is conservative with on-heap allocations, leading to infrequent GC cycles. In such cases, there could be a significant delay between the time the memory becomes unreferenced and when it is actually deallocated. This behavior could, in some respects, mimic a memory leak.
This is why some libraries hacks into DirectByteBuffer to deallocate memory explicitly, bypassing the finalizer altogether. For instance, the Netty library has implemented such a workaround, see Netty as an [example](https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/795db4a866401aa172757b95...).
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Scaling to ~15K requests per second with Java – Part 1
Apologies replying to myself, but Netty, which underpins many of the popular Java backend frameworks, see backward compatibility as more important than supporting green threads.
https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/12816
It'll be interesting to see who (if anyone) picks up Netty's mantle in the Project Loom world.
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Netty VS java-http - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 25 May 2023
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Is jre17 the problem? How do I get an old eclipse? Error: Could not find or load main class netty.DiscardServer Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: netty.DiscardServer
Looks fairly recent so I'm glad I had a pre oct22 build https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/12737
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What are your (favourite) Java best practices, personal tips, hints or just underrated stuff in general?
This is better? https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/4.1/pom.xml
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Lessons learned from picking a Java driver for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis - Part 2
Given the fact that Lettuce is built with Netty, we also immediately noticed quite an impact on the initialization time (cold start) of our lambda function. Netty is really fast while executing, but takes a bit of time to initialize. The new Lambda Snapstart functionality might help with that.
What are some alternatives?
Dubbo - The java implementation of Apache Dubbo. An RPC and microservice framework.
Undertow - High performance non-blocking webserver
Finagle - A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system
OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.
Grizzly
KryoNet - TCP/UDP client/server library for Java, based on Kryo
MINA - Mirror of Apache MINA
Async Http Client - Asynchronous Http and WebSocket Client library for Java