Scalable Cross Language Services Development
By admin on Oct 27, 2008 in C/C++, open source
Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, Smalltalk, and OCaml.
Originally developed at Facebook, Thrift was open sourced in April 2007 and entered the Apache Incubator in May, 2008.
Thrift allows you to define data types and service interfaces in a simple definition file. Taking that file as input, the compiler generates code to be used to easily build RPC clients and servers that communicate seamlessly across programming languages.
