Finagle

Finagle was developed by the Twitter team to help them build high-concurrency, fault-tolerant clients and servers.

Finagle simplifies this process by setting the ground for a protocol-agnostic communications system.

If all these terms have confused you, then the simpler explanation is this. If you have different technologies that you use to generate a Web page, like a caching system, two-three database, a URL handler, and the Web server, all these services need to talk to each other.

While each one has its own protocol that it uses to receive and send data, all these protocols are rarely compatible with each other.

Finagle helps developers build a common ground on which all these services talk to each other in a common format.

This means developers can implement new technologies whenever they need them, and the only thing they need to add support for is Finagle (instead of all the already existing technologies and their adjacent protocols).

What is new in this release:

• Dropped Scrooge in favor of pre-generated Thrift Java source code.

What is new in version 6.30.0:

• Dropped Scrooge in favor of pre-generated Thrift Java source code.

What is new in version 6.26.0:

• Dropped Scrooge in favor of pre-generated Thrift Java source code.

What is new in version 6.25.0:

• Dropped Scrooge in favor of pre-generated Thrift Java source code.

What is new in version 6.24.0:

• Dropped Scrooge in favor of pre-generated Thrift Java source code.