Programmer’s Guide to Apache Thrift

Programmer’s Guide to Apache Thrift provides comprehensive coverage of the Apache Thrift framework along with a developer’s-eye view of modern distributed application architecture.

About the Technology

Thrift-based distributed software systems are built out of communicating components that use different languages, protocols, and message types. Sitting between them is Thrift, which handles data serialization, transport, and service implementation. Thrift supports many client and server environments and a host of languages ranging from PHP to JavaScript, and from C++ to Go.

About the Book

Programmer’s Guide to Apache Thrift provides comprehensive coverage of distributed application communication using the Thrift framework. Packed with code examples and useful insight, this book presents best practices for multi-language distributed development. You’ll take a guided tour through transports, protocols, IDL, and servers as you explore programs in C++, Java, and Python. You’ll also learn how to work with platforms ranging from browser-based clients to enterprise servers.

What’s inside

• Complete coverage of Thrift’s IDL
• Building and serializing complex user-defined types
• Plug-in protocols, transports, and data compression
• Creating cross-language services with RPC and messaging systems

About the Reader

Readers should be comfortable with a language like Python, Java, or C++ and the basics of service-oriented or microservice architectures.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Apache Thrift overview

Chapter 1: Introduction to Apache Thrift

Chapter 2: Apache Thrift architecture

Chapter 3: Building, testing, and debugging

Part 2: Programming Apache Thrift

Chapter 4: Moving bytes with transports

Chapter 5: Serializing data with protocols

Chapter 6: Apache Thrift IDL

Chapter 7: User-defined types

Chapter 8: Implementing services

Chapter 9: Handling exceptions

Chapter 10: Servers

Part 3: Apache Thrift languages

Chapter 11: Building clients and servers with C++

Chapter 12: Building clients and servers with Java

Chapter 13: Building C# clients and servers with .NET Core and Windows

Chapter 14: Building Node.js clients and servers

Chapter 15: Apache Thrift and JavaScript

Chapter 16: Scripting Apache Thrift

Chapter 17: Thrift in the enterprise

About the Author

Randy Abernethy is an Apache Thrift Project Management Committee member and a partner at RX-M.