Working with Apache Thrift
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.
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It won't be possible to discuss each topic in depth, but we will try to discuss some use cases.
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, ...
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