tl;dr: Rib executes batches of inter-dependent HTTP requests from your clients to your JSON API, with automagical parallelisation built in.
The functionality which your mobile applications offer to your users depends on communication with a JSON API running in the cloud. There's a lot going on on the wire; to render some views or offer some features mobile clients need to send multiple requests to the API. Some of those requests depend on successful execution of requests sent earlier. Your mobile clients access the API over unreliable networks with high latency. API responses can take a long time to reach your clients or just fail to arrive at all. This leads to unpredictability and bad user experience.
Rib acts as a proxy between your mobile clients and the underlying JSON API. It accepts batches of requests from clients and executes them on their behalf as efficiently as possible. Independent requests are executed concurrently. Requests which depend on successful completion of other requests in the batch are executed as soon as their requirements are met.
Rib improves reliability and decreases latency thanks to having a far better connection to your API in comparison to your remote clients. In the best case scenario it runs in the same network as the API.
Additionally, Rib decreases the overall network traffic to your mobile clients. Rib sends batched responses to several requests in a single HTTP body. This allows HTTP compression to achieve better ratio and in turn result in leaner responses.
Giving Rib a try will take less than five minutes. It's as simple as pulling and running our lightweight Docker image. Run it in front of your favourite JSON API and use curl to test it.
docker run -e RIB_BACKEND=https://api.github.com \
-d -p 3000:3000 --name rib stylefruits/rib
curl -i http://docker:3000/v1/batch \
-d '[{"uri": "/", "method": "get"}]'
Do you want to learn more about Rib's API? Take a look at the introductory guide.
Install rebar3 and
rebar3 compile
erl -pa ebin -pa _build/default/lib/*/ebin -noshell -s rib start
If the service is running give it a try using
curl -s http://localhost:3000/v1/batch -d '[
{"uri": "/", "method": "get"}
]'
Run tests with
rebar3 eunit
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