Unfortunately, Thrift RPC is a pain in the butt for Python, especially if you want to code with Tornado (http://www.tornadoweb.org/ http://www.tornadoweb.org/).

Unfortunately, Thrift RPC is a pain in the butt for Python, especially if you want to code with Tornado (http://www.tornadoweb.org/ http://www.tornadoweb.org/). The Thrift-generated code necessitates either using Twisted (http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/) or writing in a blocking style. For Tornado users, the existing generated code is unusable, and the compiler doesn't facilitate generating client-side function stubs that support callbacks. Therefore, it is impossible to write a properly-working RPC mechanism with the tools that the Thrift compiler provides. The only way to get around this is to modify the compiler itself. On the other hand, generated code from Protobuf allows you to slide in an asynchronous callback function (although yes, you have to write like 50 lines of code to build an RPC implementation). I can't speak for other languages, but given Thrift's inflexibility with Python, I suspect the situation is at least as bad for less common languages.