ZeroMQ+Gevent RPC Implementation for Google Protobufs Services

Python implemenation of GoogleProtobuf Services(RPC). Uses ZeroMQ for transport layer. Server uses Gevent for threading.

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto#services

Requires:

1. python2.7
2. Virtualenv 1.11.6
3. protoc 2.5.0 (https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/downloads/list)

Build:

make all

Build Protobufs:

This is done as part of make all but to explicitly build protobufs:

make pb2_compile

Unit Tests:

make test

Run Test Server:

make test-server

Run Test Client:

make test-client

Build a python egg:

make package

Performance Results:

Ping-Pong hammer tests for 10K requets.

Environment: EC2, c1.medium instance, ubuntu-precise image:

See: protobuf-rpc/tests/load_test/hammer.py

HTTP:

Total Elapsed time (sec): 24.0618028641
Average Request time (ms): 2.40618028641

RPC Direct Connections:

Total Elapsed time (sec): 2.44900202751
Average Request time (ms): 0.244900202751

RPC with ELB:

Total Elapsed time (sec): 3.47903800011
Average Request time (ms): 0.347903800011