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Finatra

Fast, testable, Scala services built on TwitterServer and Finagle, by Twitter
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What is Finatra?

At Twitter, Finagle provides the building blocks for most of the code written on the JVM. It has long-served as Twitter's extensible, protocol-agnostic, highly-scalable RPC framework.
Finatra is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Finatra is an open source tool with 2.3K GitHub stars and 407 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Finatra's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Finatra?

Companies
6 companies reportedly use Finatra in their tech stacks, including ZocDoc, Criteo, and Clara Lending.

Developers
29 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Finatra.
Pros of Finatra
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Finatra's Features

  • Production use as Twitter’s HTTP framework
  • ~50 times faster than v1.6 in several benchmarks
  • Powerful feature and integration test support
  • Optional JSR-330 Dependency Injection using Google Guice
  • Jackson based JSON parsing supporting required fields, default values, and custom validations
  • Logback MDC integration with com.twitter.util.Local for contextual logging across futures

Finatra Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Finatra?
Play
Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.
Scalatra
It combines the power of the JVM with the beauty and brevity of Scala, helping you quickly build high-performance web sites and APIs.
Finagle
Finagle is an extensible RPC system for the JVM, used to construct high-concurrency servers. Finagle implements uniform client and server APIs for several protocols, and is designed for high performance and concurrency.
Akka HTTP
The Akka HTTP modules implement a full server- and client-side HTTP stack on top of akka-actor and akka-stream. It’s not a web-framework but rather a more general toolkit for providing and consuming HTTP-based services. While interaction with a browser is of course also in scope it is not the primary focus of Akka HTTP.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
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