Inside Fory - Apache's newest top level project

The cross-language serialization framework began life as Fury at Alipay, the world's largest payment platform.

Updated Sep 25, 2025 4:23 PM / Published Sep 25, 2025 2:03 PM 3 min read

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Translating data objects from Rust to C++ or Java to Go at top speeds has shot open-source framework Fory to top-level project status for Apache.

Apache Fory, a cross-language serialization framework, was first authored by Shawn Yang in 2019, six years later it's now an Apache Top Level Project (TLP) used by Alibaba and ByteDance.

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Noah Bovenizer

Noah Bovenizer is a senior reporter with The Stack. He previously covered the transportation sector for Global Data. He has a first class degree in journalism and has also worked as a newsreader for Gaydio.