Facebook Re-Open-Sources Thrift Cross-Language Framework As FBThrift

In 2007, Facebook open-sourced cross-language framework Thrift, which it had been using internally for the previous year. Thursday, following the addition of several features and a host of performance improvements, Thrift was re-open-sourced as FBThrift.

FBThriftGraphic650In 2007, Facebook open-sourced cross-language framework Thrift, which it had been using internally for the previous year. Thursday, following the addition of several features and a host of performance improvements, Thrift was re-open-sourced as FBThrift.

Facebook said in a post on its engineering blog that it addressed features that were lacking in its original release of Thrift, offering as examples:

  • Internal service owners were being forced to continually reinvent features such as transport compression, authentication, and counters in order to track the health of their servers.
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