Facebook Open-Sources Haskell Library Haxl

Facebook’s open-sourcing roll continued with the social network’s announcement that it added Haskell library Haxl to the list.

HaxlUses650Facebook’s open-sourcing roll continued with the social network’s announcement that it added Haskell library Haxl to the list.

Facebook announced the open-sourcing of Haxl in a post on its engineering blog:

Today we’re open-sourcing Haxl, a Haskell library that simplifies access to remote data, such as databases or Web-based services. Haxl is a layer that sits between the application code and one or more “data sources” — application-programming interfaces for fetching remote data. Haxl can automatically:

  • Batch multiple requests to the same data source into a single request.
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