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Facebook is the new poster child for progressive contribution to the open source world.

Apache Thrift

Like Cassandra, Facebook also donated Thrift to the Apache foundation. A combination software stack and code-generation engine, Thrift offers compatibility between several programming languages, including Java, Python, PHP, and JavaScript.

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