My understanding is that Thrift is Facebook's analog to Google's Stubby. Or gRPC [which is the next generation of Stubby]. It's not implementing the gRPC inter

My understanding is that Thrift is Facebook's analog to Google's Stubby. Or gRPC [which is the next generation of Stubby]. It's not implementing the gRPC interface. I don't think gRPC was open-sourced [2015] early enough for Thrift [2007] to be built to its API. Disclosure: Google employee who uses Stubby. [but is not on the team]