https://bravenewgeek.com/tag/integration/Recent content in Integration on Brave New GeekHugoen-usThu, 30 Nov 2017 19:54:45 -0600https://bravenewgeek.com/thrift-on-steroids-a-tale-of-scale-and-abstraction/Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:49:24 -0600https://bravenewgeek.com/thrift-on-steroids-a-tale-of-scale-and-abstraction/<p><a href="https://thrift.apache.org/">Apache Thrift</a> is an RPC framework developed at Facebook for building “scalable cross-language services.” It consists of an interface definition language (IDL), communication protocol, API libraries, and a code generator that allows you to build and evolve services independently and in a polyglot fashion across a wide range of languages. This is nothing new and has been around for over a decade now.</p> <p>There are a number of notable users of Thrift aside from Facebook, including Twitter (mainly by way of <a href="https://twitter.github.io/finagle/">Finagle</a>), Foursquare, Pinterest, Uber (via <a href="https://uber.github.io/tchannel/">TChannel</a>), and Evernote, among others—and for good reason, Thrift is mature and battle-tested.</p>