Exactly. If you don't know what Thrift is, check it out. In addition to solving the problem space using simple, focused applications (in the classical Unix sty

Exactly. If you don't know what Thrift is, check it out. In addition to solving the problem space using simple, focused applications (in the classical Unix style), it solves other practical issues. Like PHP having shitty clients for most modern data stores (Cassandra, Redis, hell, even Memcached) compared to what you get in, say, Python, or a JVM language.