tchannel)

Network multiplexing and framing protocol for RPC

Design goals

Easy to implement in multiple languages, especially JS and Python.
High performance forwarding path. Intermediaries can make a forwarding decision quickly.
Request / response model with out of order responses. Slow requests will not block subsequent faster requests at head of line.
Large requests/responses may/must be broken into fragments to be sent progressively.
Optional checksums.
Can be used to transport multiple protocols between endpoints, eg. HTTP+JSON and Thrift.

tchannel-node TChannel peer library for Node.js
tchannel-python TChannel peer library for Python
tchannel-golang TChannel peer library for Go
tcap TChannel packet capture tool, for eavesdropping and inspecting TChannel traffic
bufrw Node.js buffer structured reading and writing library, used for TChannel and Thrift
thriftrw Node.js Thrift buffer reader and writer
thriftify Node.js Thrift object serializer and deserializer with run-time Thrift IDL compiler