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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. extremely permissive by faqmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like my women like I like my licenses: extremely permissive.

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  2. Re:Facebook is releasing this? by Khuffie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You do realize that Facebook is a fantastic example of a clean, functional UI that only uses fancy 'web 2.0' features ala AJAX where it's actually useful?

    MySpace, on the other hand, is a piece of shit.

  3. The license by Anonymous+Conrad · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is basically the MIT license with a few tweaks to the first paragraph (e.g. person -> person or organisation), the second paragraph expanded to cover some of the ideas in the middle section of the BSD licence and the third paragraph verbatim (or practically verbatim). Note that it appears equivalent to the MIT license in that there's no non-endorsement clause as you'd find in BSD or Apache 1.1.