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		cmelbye on Feb 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 ... PHP is not the only language in use at Facebook right now... https://github.com/facebook They invented Thrift, I think they'll figure it out.

lttlrck on Feb 26, 2014 [–]

Of all Facebook's accomplishments why is Thrift the one that you think makes this a non-issue?

cmelbye on Feb 26, 2014 | [–]

They literally built it to solve problems like this. From the project page, it was designed to provide "scalable cross-language services development".

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