An introduction to Apache Thrift
You probably know Facebook, the popular social network. A small website started in 2004 as a funny side project by a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, gained huge popularity, having more and more users. In its early years it faced rapid growth in terms of traffic, system, and network structure. Their engineering culture allowed choosing any solution that was deemed optimal for a given task without any constraints or standards. This led to a situation when they had lots of different services, but no reliable way to connect them together. Describing Apache Thrift, Facebook's engineers stated in the white paper (you can download it from https://thrift.apache.org/static/files/thrift-20070401.pdf):
"(...) we were presented ...
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