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About Apache Thrift

It became an Apache Top-Level Project in October 2010.

Used for

  • Writing a .thrift interface definition file made up of thrift types and services.
  • Generating source code from a thrift file for client libraries and servers.
  • Building RPC clients and servers that communicate across programming languages.
  • Storing user objects for a web front end.

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