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Protocol Buffers Handbook

You're reading from  Protocol Buffers Handbook

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805124672
Pages 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Clément Jean Clément Jean
Profile icon Clément Jean

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Serialization Primer 2. Chapter 2: Protobuf is a Language 3. Chapter 3: Describing Data with Protobuf Text Format 4. Chapter 4: The Protobuf Compiler 5. Chapter 5: Serialization Internals 6. Chapter 6: Schema Evolution over Time 7. Chapter 7: Implementing the Address Book in Go 8. Chapter 8: Implementing the Address Book in Python 9. Chapter 9: Developing a Protoc Plugin in Golang 10. Chapter 10: Advanced Build 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about all the internal serialization/deserialization algorithms. We saw that there are multiple ways to encode integers and that is why we have that many integer types in Protobuf. After, we covered length-delimited encoding and how it relates to types such as strings, packed repeated fields, and embedded messages. Finally, we talked about unpacked repeated fields and their overhead.

In the next chapter, we will talk about schema evolution over time. We will lean on all the knowledge that we have right now to understand the problems that we might have when updating schemas and how we can overcome them.

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