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[bRPC](https://brpc.apache.org/) is an Industrial-grade RPC framework using C++ Language, which is often used in high performance system such as Search, Storage, Machine learning, Advertisement, Recommendation etc.
### "bRPC" means "better RPC".
You can use it to:
* Build a server that can talk in multiple protocols (**on same port**), or access all sorts of services:
* restful http/https, [h2](https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9113.html)/[gRPC](https://grpc.io). using http/h2 in bRPC is much more friendly than [libcurl](https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/). Access protobuf-based protocols with HTTP/h2+json, probably from another language.
* [redis](docs/en/redis_client.md) and [memcached](docs/en/memcache_client.md), thread-safe, more friendly and performant than the official clients.
* [rtmp](https://github.com/apache/brpc/blob/master/src/brpc/rtmp.h)/[flv](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video)/[hls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming), for building [streaming services](https://github.com/brpc/media-server).
* hadoop_rpc (may be opensourced).
* [rdma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_direct_memory_access) support.
* [thrift](docs/en/thrift.md) support, thread-safe, more friendly and performant than the official clients.
* all sorts of protocols used in Baidu: [baidu_std](docs/en/baidu_std.md), [streaming_rpc](docs/en/streaming_rpc.md), hulu_pbrpc, [sofa_pbrpc](https://github.com/baidu/sofa-pbrpc), nova_pbrpc, public_pbrpc, ubrpc and nshead-based ones.
* Build [HA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability) distributed services using an industrial-grade implementation of [RAFT consensus algorithm](https://raft.github.io) which is opensourced at [braft](https://github.com/brpc/braft).
* Servers can handle requests [synchronously](docs/en/server.md) or [asynchronously](docs/en/server.md#asynchronous-service).
* Clients can access servers [synchronously](docs/en/client.md#synchronus-call), [asynchronously](docs/en/client.md#asynchronous-call), [semi-synchronously](docs/en/client.md#semi-synchronous-call), or use [combo channels](docs/en/combo_channel.md) to simplify sharded or parallel accesses declaratively.
* Debug services [via http](docs/en/builtin_service.md), and run [cpu](docs/en/cpu_profiler.md), [heap](docs/en/heap_profiler.md) and [contention](docs/en/contention_profiler.md) profilers.
* Get [better latency and throughput](docs/en/overview.md#better-latency-and-throughput).
* [Extend bRPC](docs/en/new_protocol.md) with the protocols used in your organization quickly, or customize components, including [naming services](docs/en/load_balancing.md) (dns, zk, etcd), [load balancers](docs/en/load_balancing.md) (rr, random, consistent hashing).
# Try it!
* Read [overview](docs/en/overview.md) to know where bRPC can be used and its advantages.
* Read [getting started](docs/en/getting_started.md) for building steps and play with [examples](https://github.com/apache/brpc/tree/master/example/).
* Docs:
* [Performance benchmark](docs/en/benchmark.md)
* [bvar](docs/en/bvar.md)
* [bvar_c++](docs/en/bvar_c++.md)
* [bthread](docs/en/bthread.md)
* [bthread or not](docs/en/bthread_or_not.md)
* [thread-local](docs/en/thread_local.md)
* [Execution Queue](docs/en/execution_queue.md)
* [bthread tracer](docs/en/bthread_tracer.md)
* [bthread tagged task group](docs/en/bthread_tagged_task_group.md)
* Client
* [Basics](docs/en/client.md)
* [Error code](docs/en/error_code.md)
* [Combo channels](docs/en/combo_channel.md)
* [Access http/h2](docs/en/http_client.md)
* [Access gRPC](docs/en/http_derivatives.md#h2grpc)
* [Access thrift](docs/en/thrift.md#client-accesses-thrift-server)
* [Access UB](docs/en/ub_client.md)
* [Streaming RPC](docs/en/streaming_rpc.md)
* [Access redis](docs/en/redis_client.md)
* [Access memcached](docs/en/memcache_client.md)
* [Backup request](docs/en/backup_request.md)
* [Dummy server](docs/en/dummy_server.md)
* Server
* [Basics](docs/en/server.md)
* [Serve http/h2](docs/en/http_service.md)
* [Serve gRPC](docs/en/http_derivatives.md#h2grpc)
* [Serve thrift](docs/en/thrift.md#server-processes-thrift-requests)
* [Serve Nshead](docs/en/nshead_service.md)
* [Debug server issues](docs/en/server_debugging.md)
* [Server push](docs/en/server_push.md)
* [Avalanche](docs/en/avalanche.md)
* [Auto ConcurrencyLimiter](docs/en/auto_concurrency_limiter.md)
* [Media Server](https://github.com/brpc/media-server)
* [json2pb](docs/en/json2pb.md)
* [Builtin Services](docs/en/builtin_service.md)
* [status](docs/en/status.md)
* [vars](docs/en/vars.md)
* [connections](docs/en/connections.md)
* [flags](docs/en/flags.md)
* [rpcz](docs/en/rpcz.md)
* [cpu_profiler](docs/en/cpu_profiler.md)
* [heap_profiler](docs/en/heap_profiler.md)
* [contention_profiler](docs/en/contention_profiler.md)
* Tools
* [rpc_press](docs/en/rpc_press.md)
* [rpc_replay](docs/en/rpc_replay.md)
* [rpc_view](docs/en/rpc_view.md)
* [benchmark_http](docs/en/benchmark_http.md)
* [parallel_http](docs/en/parallel_http.md)
* Others
* [IOBuf](docs/en/iobuf.md)
* [Streaming Log](docs/en/streaming_log.md)
* [FlatMap](docs/en/flatmap.md)
* [Coroutine](docs/en/coroutine.md)
* [Circuit Breaker](docs/en/circuit_breaker.md)
* [UBRing](docs/en/ubring.md)
* [RDMA](docs/en/rdma.md)
* [Bazel Support](docs/en/bazel_support.md)
* [Wireshark baidu_std dissector plugin](docs/en/wireshark_baidu_std.md)
* [bRPC introduction](docs/cn/brpc_intro.pptx)(training material)
* [A tutorial on building large-scale services](docs/en/tutorial_on_building_services.pptx)(training material)
* [bRPC internal](docs/en/brpc_internal.pptx)(training material)
* RPC in depth
* [New Protocol](docs/en/new_protocol.md)
* [Atomic instructions](docs/en/atomic_instructions.md)
* [IO](docs/en/io.md)
* [Threading Overview](docs/en/threading_overview.md)
* [Load Balancing](docs/en/load_balancing.md)
* [Locality-aware](docs/en/lalb.md)
* [Consistent Hashing](docs/en/consistent_hashing.md)
* [Memory Management](docs/en/memory_management.md)
* [Timer keeping](docs/en/timer_keeping.md)
* [bthread_id](docs/en/bthread_id.md)
* Use cases
* [User cases](community/cases.md)
# Contribute code
Please refer to [here](CONTRIBUTING.md).
# Feedback and Getting involved
* Report bugs, ask questions or give suggestions by [Github Issues](https://github.com/apache/brpc/issues).
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