The servers provided by thrift's cpp are also not entirely thread safe. You will experience occasional SIGABRTs on tear down, though I have worked quite a bit to prevent it from happening. Nevertheless all of my analysis and detection efforts are littered with exceptions from thrift with some others from glog and gflags. Thrift is marked for dead in my eyes, or and upgrade to 0.10.0, I've been asking their devs via email for 6+mos for a release with no clear answer.