Description: | Thrift is a serialization and RPC framework for service communication. Thrift
enables these features in all major languages, and there is strong support for
C++, Python, Hack, and Java. Most services at Facebook are written using Thrift
for RPC, and some storage systems use Thrift for serializing records on disk.
Facebook Thrift is not a distribution of Apache Thrift. This is an evolved
internal branch of Thrift that Facebook re-released to open source community in
February 2014. Facebook Thrift was originally released closely tracking Apache
Thrift but is now evolving in new directions. In particular, the compiler was
rewritten from scratch and the new implementation features a fully asynchronous
Thrift server. |