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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition
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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition

by Naren Yellavula
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
8h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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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 as follows:

  • Flow control between sender and receiver
  • Better compression of HTTP headers
  • Single TCP connection for bidirectional streaming
  • Server push support for sending files on one TCP connection
  • Support from all major browsers

The technical definition from Google about protocol buffers is as follows:

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 the specially ...
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ISBN: 9781838643577