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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

Chapter 3. Running Your First Apache Thrift Service and Client

As you have everything ready, we shouldn't wait any longer to let you run your first Apache Thrift-enabled application.

The plan for this chapter is that firstly, you will create the necessary project files. After a brief configuration, you will be able to run the service and connect it with the client by yourself. We will be using a server written in PHP and a client in Python. The code is very simple, so you can adapt it to any other programming language if you wish.

At the end of this chapter, we will discuss the code and exactly what it means. Don't worry if you don't understand everything at the beginning. The goal of this chapter is to allow you to have a running client and service that you can easily manipulate and change. We will discuss the technical details in Chapter 4, Understanding How Apache Thrift Works.