Question

I know Thrift has its own Threadpool server but I’m not sure it will be able to handle heavy load. Would you recommend putting it behind tomcat ?
In addition, if you wanted to use the socket transport implementation could you still use tomcat ? or would need to use some other solution ?
I would really love to hear about your experience deploying thrift java services.

Answer 1

Consider putting it inside application server (tomcat, jetty, etc.) and accessing it through HTTP using TServlet. You get from the server:

1. Threads management
2. Connections management
3. You get to use standard Filters to maybe rate limit the requests, or manage access based on cookies
4. Probably readily available access logs
5. You can easily add JSON Protocol for debugging