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Facebook's Cross-Language Network Library

Posted by kdawson on from the talk-is-lightweight dept.

koreth writes "Facebook has released Thrift, a toolkit for making remote method calls. It generates interoperable network code in C++, Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Its protocol is much more lightweight (and probably much higher-performance) than SOAP or CORBA. Facebook uses it internally for high-traffic services like search. The license is extremely permissive."

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  1. Re:"Probably" much higher performance? by nekokoneko · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok, I wasn't really shooting for "Funny" with my previous post. I know it's a *shudders* RPC framework released by Facebook and it's hard to take the story seriously, but I do believe it is important not to make unsubstantiated claims such as the one outlined in the story. Oh well. Got to take what the moderators give.