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Programmer’s Guide to Apache Thrift
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Programmer’s Guide to Apache Thrift

by William Abernethy
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
20h 4m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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Chapter 2. Apache Thrift architecture

This chapter covers

  • Introducing the Apache Thrift cross-language service architecture
  • Explaining how endpoint transports support device independence
  • Adding generic I/O features to Apache Thrift using layered transports
  • Understanding Apache Thrift serialization protocols and their features
  • Using the Apache Thrift IDL and the IDL compiler
  • Understanding the features of the RPC server library

In the first chapter, we discussed Apache Thrift’s place in the distributed application development landscape and created a set of programs demonstrating a simple cross-language service. In this chapter, we take a sweeping look at the overall Apache Thrift framework. We’ll break down the framework into layers, examining ...

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