Welcome
Hello and welcome to the third MEAP update for The Programmer’s Guide to Apache Thrift.
This update adds Chapter 7, Designing and Serializing User Defined Types. This latest
chapter is the first of the application layer chapters in Part 2.
Chapters 3, 4 and 5 cover transports, error handling and protocols respectively. These
chapters describe the foundational elements of Apache Thrift. Chapter 6 describes Apache
Thrift IDL in depth, introducing the tools which enable us to describe data types and services
in IDL. Chapters 7 through 9 bring these concepts into action, covering the three key
applications areas of Apache Thrift in turn: User Defined Types (UDTs), Services and Servers.
Chapter 7 introduces Apache Thrift IDL UDTs and provides insight into the critical role
played by interface evolution in quality type design. Using IDL to effectively describe cross
language types greatly simplifies the transmission of common data structures over
messaging systems and other generic communications interfaces. Chapter 7 demonstrates
the process of serializing types for use with external interfaces, disk I/O and in combination
with Apache Thrift transport layer compression.
Chapter 8 will add Apache Thrift service coverage and Chapter 9 will round out Part 2
with a full treatment of Apache Thrift servers. Part 3 is also taking shape and will serve as an
introduction to several of the other key languages used with Apache Thrift including
JavaScript (browser and Node implementations), C#, Ruby and more.
Please feel free to leave any questions of comments on the book’s forum. I will be sure to
respond to any and all.
Happy coding,
--Randy Abernethy
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