December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
6h 58m
English
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Introduction to protocol buffers
HTTP/1.1 is the standard that is adopted by the web community. In recent times, HTTP/2 is becoming more popular because of its advantages. Some of the benefits of using HTTP/2 are:
- Encryption of data via TLS (HTTPS)
- Compression of headers
- Single TCP connection
- Fallback to HTTP/1.1
- Support from all major browsers
The technical definition from Google about protocol buffers is:
Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and ...