Comments on: Ruby Web-Services with Facebook’s Thrift

By: links for 2008-01-18 « Bloggitation

links for 2008-01-18 « Bloggitation — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:19:34 +0000

[...] Ruby Web-Services with Facebook’s Thrift (tags: ruby rails programming facebook thrift web2.0) [...]

By: Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don't Need Separate Posts #12

Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don't Need Separate Posts #12 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:18:28 +0000

[...] Ruby Web Services with Facebook’s Thrift is a great post by Ilya Grigorik that walks you through building a Web service and client using Ruby and the newly released cross-language Thrift library from Facebook. [...]

By: Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:51:28 +0000

Jim, exactly my thinking when I first heard about Thrift: “Right, all we needed was another middleware/RPC protocol/stack…” Having said that, I’ve come around full circle on it once I actually played around with it. Definitely one of the cleanest and fun to play with frameworks out there!

By: Jim Murphy

Jim Murphy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:50:37 +0000

Wow - its hard not to like the approach but as someone who’s had a small part in advancing broadly interoperable web services over the last 6 years this is a bit of a throwback - though a pretty elegant one. :)

I remember the bygone days when all this stuff was going to be commoditized in the patform and we could all move on…

By: Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:58:44 +0000

Cornelius, you’re right, most applications don’t need the middleware layer provided by thrift. Having said that, anytime you get into SOA architectures, or when you have to start really scaling the site, you’ll be up against this exact problem that Thrift tries to solve! :)

By: 海綿般的大男孩 » Blog Archive » Thrift 讓人覺得渺小

海綿般的大男孩 » Blog Archive » Thrift 讓人覺得渺小 — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:51:05 +0000

[...] 最後，如果對Thrift很有興趣的，可以推薦你去閱讀Ruby Web-Services with Facebook’s Thrift，這個作者很厲害，它的每一篇文章都很棒． [...]

By: ruby on thrift — award tour

ruby on thrift — award tour — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:40:58 +0000

[...] Ruby Web-Services with Facebook’s Thrift - igvita.com. intro to using thrift in ruby. looks nicer than soap or corba. though that’s not saying much. [...]

By: Cornelius

Cornelius — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:13:19 +0000

Hey Ilya,
Thanks for this post, haven’t heard of Thrift before. It seems definitely like a clean and simple solutions and avoids using other more “burdensome” middleware implementations like Corba, Java RMI or .Net Remoting to create distributed web applications. Luckily most web applications don’t need to be distributed.

Cornelius.