What is Thrift?

http://thrift.apache.org/static/files/thrift-20070401.pdf

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/69316/biggest-differences-of-thrift-vs-protocol-buffers

http://www.eishay.com/2009/04/protocol-buffers-forward-backward.html

http://diwakergupta.github.com/thrift-missing-guide/thrift.pdf