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BERT and Ernie: Scaling your Ruby site with Erlang

GitHub had a problem. I needed a fast, robust way for one Ruby process to make low-latency calls to another. I looked at Thrift and Protocol Buffers, but those solutions were too complex and not flexible enough to hang with Ruby. To solve the problem, I created BERT, BERT-RPC, and Ernie. BERT (Binary ERlang Term) is a new serialization format based on Erlang's external term format. It supports rich data types such as atoms (symbols), heterogenous lists, tuples, and binary data. BERT-RPC is a ... View More