Thrift 是 Facebook 开源的一个高性能，轻量级 RPC 服务框架，是一套全栈式的 RPC 解决方案，包含序列化与服务通信能力，并支持跨平台/跨语言。

At Pinterest we’ve worked to greatly improve data processing efficiency. One quote that resonates with our unique approach is from writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Ultimately, we process petabytes of Thrift encoded data at Pinterest. Most jobs that access this data need only a part of it. To meet our unique needs, we devised a way to efficiently deserialize only the desired subsets of Thrift structures in each job. Our solution enabled us to significantly decrease our data processing resource usage: about 20% reduction in vcore usage, 27% reduction in memory usage, and 36% reduction in intermediate data (mapper output).

痛点：每次服务端更改IDL文件，都需要重启服务！

本文最早于 2018 年 5 月 30 日发表（原文链接）。在前端和后端服务器的数据交互过程中，前端工程师希望使用GraphQL来灵活定制接口，实现快速迭代；而后端工程师希望使用Thrift来保证接口的稳定性和特异性。本文将…