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Summary: Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/Haxl/pull/107 Add a simple mechanism (similar to asyncFetchAcquireRelease) to allow simple converting of data sources from AsyncFetch to BackgroundFetch Reviewed By: simonmar Differential Revision: D19272624 fbshipit-source-id: 3aec107de26fb59a4be3b2818b4f769f3404b15f |
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Haxl
Haxl is a Haskell library that simplifies access to remote data, such as databases or web-based services. Haxl can automatically
- batch multiple requests to the same data source,
- request data from multiple data sources concurrently,
- cache previous requests,
- memoize computations.
Having all this handled for you behind the scenes means that your data-fetching code can be much cleaner and clearer than it would otherwise be if it had to worry about optimizing data-fetching. We'll give some examples of how this works in the pages linked below.
There are two Haskell packages here:
haxl: The core Haxl frameworkhaxl-facebook(in https://github.com/facebook/Haxl/tree/master/example/facebook): An (incomplete) example data source for accessing the Facebook Graph API
To use Haxl in your own application, you will likely need to build one or more data sources: the thin layer between Haxl and the data that you want to fetch, be it a database, a web API, a cloud service, or whatever.
There is a generic datasource in "Haxl.DataSource.ConcurrentIO" that can be used for performing arbitrary IO operations concurrently, given a bit of boilerplate to define the IO operations you want to perform.
The haxl-facebook package shows how we might build a Haxl data
source based on the existing fb package for talking to the Facebook
Graph API.
Where to go next?
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The Story of Haxl explains how Haxl came about at Facebook, and discusses our particular use case.
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An example Facebook data source walks through building an example data source that queries the Facebook Graph API concurrently.
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Fun with Haxl (part 1) Walks through using Haxl from scratch for a simple SQLite-backed blog engine.
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The N+1 Selects Problem explains how Haxl can address a common performance problem with SQL queries by automatically batching multiple queries into a single query, without the programmer having to specify this behavior.
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Haxl Documentation on Hackage.
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There is no Fork: An Abstraction for Efficient, Concurrent, and Concise Data Access, our paper on Haxl, accepted for publication at ICFP'14.