Apache Thrift

8 engineers on Hacker News describe using Apache Thrift first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.

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8first-hand users
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endorse 3mixed 0regret 0uses, no opinion

“We use Thrift a lot at my company, not just for internal communication, but for our external facing API.”

endorse · production · wwarren · 2014-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use both thrift and protobuf, and my experience with both has been very positive.”

endorse · production · edan · 2011-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“So we switched to Thrift and whole FB stack with HipHop and Scribe and we're thrilled.”

endorse · production · tadruj · 2011-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“transform storage format to Thrift, respond to caller with Thrift”

neutral · production · azylman · 2022-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“lots of Thrift RPCs, and plenty of memcache”

neutral · production · boulos · 2016-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'd love to use something like thrift for serializing matrices or other larger data over a wire or onto disk”

neutral · personal · chuckcode · 2014-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“If everything's a service (Thrift in our case) then it really doesn't matter what language is on the other end.”

neutral · production · lmm · 2014-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Facebook's adoption of Thrift, and Thrift's tradition of supporting polyglot languages”

neutral · production · kmavm · 2012-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?