brpc を Homebrew でインストール

プロジェクトリンク

• ホームページ
• リポジトリ
• 上流ドキュメント
• パッケージマネージャページ

コマンドとエイリアス

• parallel_http
• rpc_press
• rpc_replay
• rpc_view
• trackme_server

プロジェクトの歴史

The Apache bRPC website describes the project as an industrial-grade C++ RPC framework often used in high-performance systems such as search, storage, machine learning, advertising, and recommendation. The README explains the name as better RPC and highlights one-port multi-protocol servers, HTTP/HTTPS, h2/gRPC, Redis, memcached, Thrift, Baidu internal protocols, and braft-based Raft services.

bRPC entered the Apache Incubator on 2018-11-13. The incubator status page records Apache bRPC incubating releases 0.9.6 in 2019, 0.9.7 in 2020, 1.0.0 in 2021, and 1.1.0 through 1.3.0 in 2022 before graduation on 2022-12-22. The first listed post-graduation Apache bRPC release is 1.4.0 on 2023-02-07.

採用の歴史

bRPC's adoption history starts inside Baidu: the official docs include use-case pages for Baidu Maps API gateway, Union DSP, ELF learning framework, and cloud-platform proxy services. After incubation, adoption broadened through Apache governance, public documentation, mailing lists, GitHub issues, and Homebrew packaging.

Unlike many RPC libraries packaged primarily as language modules, bRPC ships developer-facing tools such as `rpc_press`, `rpc_replay`, `rpc_view`, `parallel_http`, and `trackme_server`, which explains why it appears as a Homebrew formula rather than only as a C++ source dependency.

使われ方

Engineers use bRPC to build C++ clients and servers that need high-throughput RPC, mixed protocol support, HTTP-accessible debugging, profiling, load balancing, naming-service integration, and production observability. It is especially relevant to large internal-service deployments where one framework must bridge custom protocols and common open protocols.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

For package nerds, bRPC is a useful contrast to small CLI tools: it is a heavy C++ distributed-systems framework whose package-manager artifact exposes both libraries and operational tools. Its history also shows how company-born infrastructure becomes a community-governed Apache project without losing the fingerprints of its original production environment.

タイムライン

• Pre-2018: bRPC develops as Baidu production RPC infrastructure.
• 2018-11-13: bRPC enters the Apache Incubator.
• 2019-07-14: Apache bRPC incubating 0.9.6 release.
• 2021-10-31: Apache bRPC incubating 1.0.0 release.
• 2022-12-22: bRPC graduates from the Apache Incubator.
• 2023-02-07: Apache bRPC 1.4.0 release after graduation.

Related projects

• Related projects include gRPC, Apache Thrift, protobuf, braft, Redis and memcached clients, HTTP/2 service frameworks, and other large-scale C++ RPC stacks used inside infrastructure companies.

ソース

• https://brpc.apache.org/
• https://brpc.apache.org/docs/
• https://brpc.apache.org/docs/use-cases-inside-baidu/
• https://github.com/apache/brpc
• https://incubator.apache.org/projects/brpc.html