Re: Google Protocol Buffers - structured binary data

[hank williams]

Has anyone looked at facebook thrift:

http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/

It seems to do essentially the same thing as protocol buffer and I am
curious if anyone has looked at either or both and has any thoughts. We need
a solution for fast server to server communications and so any insight would
be appreciated.

Hank

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Stuart Sierra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In case people are interested:

 Google has released its Protocol Buffers under the Apache license.  It
 generates (de)serialization code for structured data in
 Java/C++/Python from a simple schema description.

 http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/

 Should be pretty simple to wrap the generated code in a Writable.
 Could be a useful alternative to org.apache.hadoop.record, especially
 for data you want to use outside of the Hadoop framework.

 -Stuart




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Re: Hadoop future?

[hank williams]

It is essentially impossible for me to conceive of Microsoft pulling
Yahoo out of hadoop.

Microsoft is blind. Yahoo is somewhat less blind, at least as it
relates to the internet. Part of what Microsoft has stated is that
they want the engineers from yahoo. How much sense would it make to
suggest that you want all the engineers, but you want them to abandon
everything they have done and start again on IIS. I dont think so.

I believe Hadoop, at least in this regard, is *totally* safe.

Hank


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