Thrift

Apache Thrift is a robust remote procedure call (RPC) framework and code generation system developed at Facebook. It enables services written in different programming languages to communicate seamlessly and efficiently, utilizing a concise Interface Description Language (IDL) to define data…

Key facts

First appeared: 2007
Category: technology
Problem solved: Apache Thrift was created to solve the challenge of building high-performance, cross-language services in rapidly scaling distributed environments. It aimed to provide a common, efficient, and type-safe mechanism for disparate services written in different languages to communicate, overcoming the complexities and inefficiencies of custom serialization and network protocols that were prevalent at the time.
Platforms: Android, Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, Any platform supported by target generated languages

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Notable users

Pinterest
AirBnB (historically)
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Facebook
Uber (historically)