Another interesting development to consider is that SPDY is starting to gain wide adoption. http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Feature/SPDY
Free load balancers (nginx, apache, HAProxy) either have it or are planning support for it. As a replacement for HTTP it supports out-of-order requests and server initiated requests. Since load balancers and proxies will support SPDY over time, and will not likely support a proprietary avro protocol, Avro over HTTP/SPDY will have its uses. However, the above developments do not reduce the need for Avro to have standardized secure socket based asynchronous RPC spec. On 3/7/12 3:31 PM, "Doug Cutting" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 03/07/2012 03:18 PM, Mike Percy wrote: >> I wonder if we couldn't retrofit the Netty implementation with SASL >> and see how close that gets us to something that looks like it has >> all the desired features needed to consider standardizing on it, or >> something close to it. > >That sounds like a fine plan. > >Doug
