baidu/sofa-pbrpc

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2138 stars · 649 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

sofa-pbrpc is a lightweight C++ RPC library implementing Google's protobuf RPC framework, with sync/async calls, timeouts, compression, load balancing, and a web monitor. It was developed by Baidu and also provides a Python client library.

Use cases

• build high-performance protobuf RPC services in C++
• make sync and async RPC calls with per-request timeouts
• load balance requests across multiple backend servers
• monitor RPC services via a built-in web dashboard
• call protobuf RPC services from Python
• compress RPC payloads transparently over the network

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, high-performance protobuf RPC stack in C++
• you want built-in load balancing, fault tolerance, and flow control without extra infrastructure
• you need service/method/request-level timeout control
• you want a web-based monitor and profiling statistics for RPC services

When to avoid

• you need gRPC or modern protobuf versions (it depends on protobuf 2.4.1)
• you need cross-platform support beyond Linux
• you want an actively developed project with recent community activity
• you need features like bidirectional streaming or HTTP/2

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

rpc http-server middleware monitoring microservices backend developer-tools networking cpp python protobuf load-balancing async-rpc high-performance baidu linux

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