| Project FB303: The Facebook Bassline |
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| * Curious about the 303? * |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TB-303 |
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| * Why the name? * |
| The TB303 makes bass lines. |
| .Bass is what lies underneath any strong tune. |
| ..fb303 is the shared root of all thrift services. |
| ...fb303 => FacebookBase303. |
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| * How do I use this? * |
| Take a look at the examples to see how your backend project can |
| and should inherit from this service. |
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| * What does it provide? * |
| A standard interface to monitoring, dynamic options and configuration, |
| uptime reports, activity, etc. |
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| * I want more. * |
| Think carefully first about whether the functionality you are going to add |
| belongs here or in your application. If it can be abstracted and is generally |
| useful, then it probably belongs somewhere in the fb303 tree. Keep in mind, |
| not every product has to use ALL the functionality of fb303, but every product |
| CANNOT use functionality that is NOT in fb303. |
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| * Is this open source? * |
| Yes. fb303 is distributed under the Thrift Software License. See the |
| LICENSE file for more details. |
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| * Installation * |
| fb303 is configured/built/installed similar to Thrift. See the README |
| in the Thrift root directory for more information. |
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| * Who wrote this README? * |
| mcslee@facebook.com |
