A lightweight, python-only Thrift alternative. I like it. Thrift is great but it's not uncommon in some of our simpler services for Thrift to be the CPU bottle

A lightweight, python-only Thrift alternative. I like it. Thrift is great but it's not uncommon in some of our simpler services for Thrift to be the CPU bottleneck. Especially when we're using Cassandra as the data store. You've got our front-end code talking to a service using Thrift, and then the service talking to Cassandra using Thrift, and each thrift call has a serialize/deserialize process on each end. Nice work dotcloud. Thanks for the free stuff!