Facebook's Thrift Accepted into Apache Incubator
Facebook recently began sharing a lot of the details about their engineering practices on the Facebook engineering blog. Today they made a really big announcement from the development perspective: their Thirft software framework has been accepted into the Apache incubator. The Thrift framework solves one core problem: enable efficient and reliable communication across programming languages. There are also some really slick features built into Thrift.
One of those features is the interface. Rather than selecting to use TCP/IP or a standard I/O protocol or any other protocol, they determined that “Thrift code only needs to know how to read and write data.
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