Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC – GitHub

As I detailed in How We Made GitHub Fast, we have created a new data serialization and RPC protocol to power the GitHub backend. We have big plans for these technologies and I’d like to take a moment to explain what makes them special and the philosophy behind their creation.

The serialization format is called BERT (Binary ERlang Term) and is based on
the existing external term format already implemented by Erlang. The RPC protocol is called BERT-RPC and is a simple protocol built on top of BERT packets.

You can view the current specifications at http://bert-rpc.org.

This is a long article; if you want to see some example code of how easy it is to setup an Erlang/Ruby BERT-RPC server and call it from a Ruby BERT-RPC client, skip to the end.
(Link: Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC – GitHub)