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Learning Apache Thrift

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Learning Apache Thrift

Overview of this book

With modern software systems being increasingly complex, providing a scalable communication architecture for applications in different languages is tedious. The Apache Thrift framework is the solution to this problem! It helps build efficient and easy-to-maintain services and offers a plethora of options matching your application type by supporting several popular programming languages, including C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk, OCaml, and Delphi. This book will help you set aside the basics of service-oriented systems through your first Apache Thrift-powered app. Then, progressing to more complex examples, it will provide you with tips for running large-scale applications in production environments. You will learn how to assess when Apache Thrift is the best tool to be used. To start with, you will run a simple example application, learning the framework's structure along the way; you will quickly advance to more complex systems that will help you solve various real-life problems. Moreover, you will be able to add a communication layer to every application written in one of the popular programming languages, with support for various data types and error handling. Further, you will learn how pre-eminent companies use Apache Thrift in their popular applications. This book is a great starting point if you want to use one of the best tools available to develop cross-language applications in service-oriented architectures.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Apache Thrift
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Generating and Running Code in Different Languages
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered everything that you learned up to this point in one service and three different applications. You were able to use all the language's capabilities to create your Apache Thrift service.

You not only recalled the technical details, but also got to know the optimal process that leads to creating the service and clients. Remember this method in future so that you can plan and implement your applications in an organized and structured manner. This way of working will let you meet requirements in an easier manner and with less effort, with the whole process being transparent and comprehensible.

In the final chapter, we will wrap things up with some examples of advanced usage of Apache Thrift. You will get some tips on using it in production environments and learn about how it is leveraged by the top companies.