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Mastering PHP 7

You're reading from   Mastering PHP 7 Design, configure, build, and test professional web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882814
Length 536 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Branko Ajzele Branko Ajzele
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The All New PHP FREE CHAPTER 2. Embracing Standards 3. Error Handling and Logging 4. Magic Behind Magic Methods 5. The Realm of CLI 6. Prominent OOP Features 7. Optimizing for High Performance 8. Going Serverless 9. Reactive Programming 10. Common Design Patterns 11. Building Services 12. Working with Databases 13. Resolving Dependencies 14. Working with Packages 15. Testing the Important Bits 16. Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling 17. Hosting, Provisioning, and Deployment

Working with Apache Thrift (RPC)


Apache Thrift is an open source framework to build scalable cross-language services. It was originally developed by Facebook, then entered the Apache Incubator around May 2008. Simplicity, transparency, consistency, and performance are the four key values behind the framework.

Unlike the REST and SOAP type of services, Thrift services use a binary form of communication. Luckily for us, Thrift provides a code generation engine to get us started. The code generation engine can pick up any interface definition language (IDL) file and generate PHP or other language bindings from it.

Before we start writing our first service definition, we need to install Apache Thrift.

Installing Apache Thrift

Apache Thrift can be installed from source files. Assuming that we have a fresh Ubuntu 16.10 installation, we can kick off the Apache Thrift installation steps using the following set of commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install php automake bison flex g++ git libboost...
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