Thrift exposition on what we did and why. Mark Slee, Aditya Agarwal and Marc Kwiatkowski. Facebook, 156 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA
The Apache Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language services development, combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk, OCaml and Delphi and other languages.