matter?) • Ruby encoding/decoding is not fast (it’s not that slow - wire matters more) • Ruby libraries are not the best (Support for other languages is great, though)
server + Ruby client • Client is the load balancer • Request and Response encoding/decoding are not part of the protocol. • Each tcpez based project defines its own Request/ Response and these can be in any format • Built in by default: Good logging, Statsd, Protocol Buffers, Pipelined requests!