Foreword
I first met Randy on the Apache Thrift mailing lists, where we both grew from contributing enthusiasts to committers and finally to PMC members of the Apache Thrift project. Later on I met him a few times in person, and we formed a bond—the kind many programmers are familiar with—while working on a piece of open source software across two continents.
Isn’t it funny how that works? At the same time there are heavy conflicts in certain areas of the world, countless open source projects are bringing people together, to communicate freely and build bridges—across oceans, across continents, and across cultures. And if there is any Apache project that best fits this picture of communication and connections, it’s probably Apache Thrift. ...
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