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Cloud Native Programming with Golang
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Cloud Native Programming with Golang

by Mina Andrawos, Martin Helmich
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
9h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Protocol buffers

In their official documentations, protocol buffers are defined as a language-neutral, platform-neutral mechanism for serializing structured data. Let's take a look at an example to help build a clear picture of what protocol buffers are.

Assume that you have two microservices in your application; the first microservice (service 1) has collected information about a new customer and would like to send it to the second microservice (service 2). This data is considered structured data because it contains structured information such as the customer name, age, job, and phone numbers. One way to send this data is to send it as a JSON document (our data format) over HTTP from service 1 to service 2. However, what if we want to send ...

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