|  | Project FB303: The Facebook Bassline | 
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|  | * Curious about the 303? * | 
|  | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TB-303 | 
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|  | * Why the name? * | 
|  | The TB303 makes bass lines. | 
|  | .Bass is what lies underneath any strong tune. | 
|  | ..fb303 is the shared root of all thrift services. | 
|  | ...fb303 => FacebookBase303. | 
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|  | * How do I use this? * | 
|  | Take a look at the examples to see how your backend project can | 
|  | and should inherit from this service. | 
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|  | * What does it provide? * | 
|  | A standard interface to monitoring, dynamic options and configuration, | 
|  | uptime reports, activity, etc. | 
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|  | * I want more. * | 
|  | Think carefully first about whether the functionality you are going to add | 
|  | belongs here or in your application. If it can be abstracted and is generally | 
|  | useful, then it probably belongs somewhere in the fb303 tree. Keep in mind, | 
|  | not every product has to use ALL the functionality of fb303, but every product | 
|  | CANNOT use functionality that is NOT in fb303. | 
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|  | * Is this open source? * | 
|  | Yes. fb303 is distributed under the Thrift Software License. See the | 
|  | LICENSE file for more details. | 
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|  | * Installation * | 
|  | fb303 is configured/built/installed similar to Thrift.  See the README | 
|  | in the Thrift root directory for more information. | 
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|  | * Who wrote this README? * | 
|  | mcslee@facebook.com |