More Advanced Features

As a microservice framework closely related to application development and aimed at providing enterprise-level service governance capabilities, Dubbo offers a variety of advanced features covering service call behavior control, service diagnostics and tuning, and service governance.

Different language SDKs may have slight variations in feature implementation and configuration methods. For a specific list of features and usage, refer to the following documents:

• Java
• Golang

Controlling Service Invocation Behavior

• Service Versions
• Service Groups
• Group Aggregation
• Asynchronous Invocation
• Asynchronous Execution
• Streaming Communication
• Reactive Programming
• Generic Invocation
• Generic Implementation
• Passing Implicit Parameters in Call Chain
• RPC Call Context
• Invocation Event Notifications
• Server Callbacks to Client
• Subscribe Only
• Register Only
• Runtime Dynamic IP Specification
• Direct Provider Connection
• Startup Checks
• Local Invocation
• Parameter Validation
• Local Mocking
• Local Stubs
• Echo Tests
• Invocation Information Logging
• Delayed Exposure
• Cluster Fault Tolerance
• Service Degradation

Diagnostics and Tuning

• Port Protocol Multiplexing
• Thread Pool Isolation
• Multiple Protocols
• Multiple Registry Centers
• Request Latency Sampling
• Thread Models
• Service Reference Configuration Object Caching
• Route State Collection
• Load Balancing
• Simplified Registration Information
• Invocation Result Caching
• Concurrency Control
• Connection Control
• Delayed Connections
• Sticky Connections
• Graal VM Support
• Exporting Thread Stack Trace
• Kryo and FST Serialization
• Custom Service Container
• Graceful Shutdown
• Custom Host Address Exposure
• Consistent Hashing
• Logging Framework Adaptation and Runtime Management
• Kubernetes Lifecycle Probes

These features are designed to provide more control and flexibility in a microservices environment. They can help improve system reliability, enhance performance, and ease the process of deploying, managing, and scaling applications.