In this section, we will discuss Apache Thrift, Avro, and will briefly touch on the Protocol buffer software framework, for scalable cross-language services development, which combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, other languages.
We will start with Apache Thrift first; the Thrift framework is widely used, and is used for scalable cross-language services development, combining 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 Delphi, and other languages.