The Programmer's Guide to Apache Thrift

DESCRIPTION Any distributed application includes individual components, often written in different languages and hosted in multiple locations, which must communicate quickly and efficiently. Apache Thrift is a communication framework that enables cross-language remote procedure calls and serialization. It supports embedded, mobile, web, and server environments, and a host of languages ranging from JavaScript to C++. It's perfect for back end services and embedded systems where size, scalability, and performance are mission critical. The Programmer's Guide to Apache Thrift provides comprehensive coverage of the Apache Thrift framework along with a developer's-eye view of modern distributed application architecture. Packed with complete code examples and pragmatic discussion, it lays the best practices for multi-language distributed application development. Readers will get a guided tour through transports, protocols, IDL, and servers as they explore complete example programs in C++, Java, and Python. They'll also learn how to work with platforms, ranging from enterprise servers to mobile clients. KEY FEATURES Deep coverage of the Apache Thrift framework Packed with complete code examples and pragmatic discussion Great resource for new and experienced Apache Thrift programmers AUDIENCE Readers should be comfortable with a mainstream programming language like Java or C++ and the basics of service-oriented architecture. No experience with Apache Thrift is required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Apache Thrift is an important cross language software development platform used by Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, Evernote, Hadoop, Cassandra and many other firms and projects. Apache Thrift supports embedded, mobile, web, and back end server environments and a large contingent of programming languages.