12 Data Serialization
A sizable portion of our work as developers involves integrating our network services with existing services, including legacy or third-party ones implemented in languages other than Go. These services must communicate by exchanging bytes of data in a way that is meaningful to both the sender and receiver, despite the different programming languages they’re using. To do this, the sender converts data into bytes using a standard format and transfers the bytes over the network to the receiver. If the receiver understands the format used by the sender, it can convert the bytes back into structured data. This process of ...
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