Cross platform IPC using Apache Thrift™

In the implementation of our API we needed a reliable way to connect the RESTfull web api with our back-end services written in C++ running on linux machines.

Designing a communication protocol over TCP/IP in-house, implementing and maintaing it in at least two programming languages (C# and C++) is impractical and frankly too hard to do correctly. So the better option is to pick on of the existing solutions for this task.