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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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protobuf
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How we reverse-engineered Google Maps pagination
Google Maps URLs contain the pb parameter contains string-encoded Protobuf. The format is the same as for the data parameter in the browser URL on Google Maps. It contains !-separated values. There are several answers on StackOverflow, gists on GitHub, some blog posts about decoding, and even a kinda official guide on reverse engineering protobuf, but none of this touches pagination.
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Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not
Seems like protoduf.js has the exact same methods as Google’s implementations with the same names (encode/decode to not prepend with length, encodeDelimited/decodeDelimited for prepending length). It is hard for me to say they’re adding to the standard when they’re just replicating Google’s libraries.
https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js#toolset
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Question about compressing JSON in multiplayer position updates
If it really is a problem, then another option is to use Protobus or Message Pack for serializing (maybe into base64?).
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Looking for ideas on how to implement serialization and deserialization between C++ and Javascript
I use protocol buffers. protobufjs translates into json.
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GRPC Gateway API Client?
I have tried GRPC gateway generation tools: - PBJS: https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js/
- Protobuf-ES: The Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime we all deserve
- Did I understand the basic concept of website development with Node Js correctly?
- how can i use protobuf with sveltekit, please?
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is there any startup or famous web app using grpc/grpc-web for their frontend
We use https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web for the server part with https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js on the frontend.
Cap'n Proto
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Mysterious Moving Pointers
Yeah I pretty much only use my own alternate container implementations (from KJ[0]), which avoid these footguns, but the result is everyone complains our project is written in Kenton-Language rather than C++ and there's no Stack Overflow for it and we can't hire engineers who know how to write it... oops.
[0] https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/blob/v2/kjdoc/tour.md
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Show HN: Comprehensive inter-process communication (IPC) toolkit in modern C++
- may massively reduce the latency involved.
Those sharing Cap'n Proto-encoded data may have particular interest. Cap'n Proto (https://capnproto.org) is fantastic at its core task - in-place serialization with zero-copy - and we wanted to make the IPC (inter-process communication) involving capnp-serialized messages be zero-copy, end-to-end.
That said, we paid equal attention to other varieties of payload; it's not limited to capnp-encoded messages. For example there is painless (<-- I hope!) zero-copy transmission of arbitrary combinations of STL-compliant native C++ data structures.
To help determine whether Flow-IPC is relevant to you we wrote an intro blog post. It works through an example, summarizes the available features, and has some performance results. https://www.linode.com/blog/open-source/flow-ipc-introductio...
Of course there's nothing wrong with going straight to the GitHub link and getting into the README and docs.
Currently Flow-IPC is for Linux. (macOS/ARM64 and Windows support could follow soon, depending on demand/contributions.)
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Condvars and atomics do not mix
FWIW, my C++ toolkit library, KJ, does the same thing.[0]
But presumably you could still write a condition predicate which looks at things which aren't actually part of the mutex-wrapped structure? Or does is the Rust type system able to enforce that the callback can only consider the mutex-wrapped value and values that are constant over the lifetime of the wait? (You need the latter e.g. if you are waiting for the mutex-wrapped value to compare equal to some local variable...)
[0] https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/blob/e6ad6f919aeb381b...
- Cap'n'Proto: infinitely faster than Protobuf
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I don’t understand zero copy
The second one is to encode data in such a way that you can read it and operate on it directly from the buffer. You write data in a layout that is the same, or easily transformed as types in memory. To do that you usually need to encode with a known schema, only Sized types to efficiently compute fields locations as offsets in the buffer, and you usually represent pointers as offset into the encode. You can look at capnproto protocol for instance https://capnproto.org/
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OpenTF Renames Itself to OpenTofu
Worked well for Cap'n Proto (the cerealization protocol)! https://capnproto.org/
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A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language
With all due respect, you read completely wrong.
* The very first use case for which Cap'n Proto was designed was to be the protocol that Sandstorm.io used to talk between sandbox and supervisor -- an explicitly adversarial security scenario.
* The documentation explicitly calls out how implementations should manage resource exhaustion problems like deep recursion depth (stack overflow risk).
* The implementation has been fuzz-tested multiple ways, including as part of Google's oss-fuzz.
* When there are security bugs, I issue advisories like this:
https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/tree/v2/security-advi...
* The primary aim of the entire project is to be a Capability-Based Security RPC protocol.
- Cap'n Proto: serialization/RPC system – core tools and C++ library
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Sandstorm: Open-source platform for self-hosting web app
I like how they use capability-based security [0] and use Cap'n Proto protocol. This is another technology that is slow to get broad adoption, but has many things going for when compared to e.g. Protocol Buffers (Cap'n Proto is created by the primary author of Protobuf v2, Kenton Varda).
[0] https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works#capabilities
[1] https://capnproto.org
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Flatty - flat message buffers with direct mapping to Rust types without packing/unpacking
Related but not Rust-specific: FlatBuffers, Cap'n Proto.
What are some alternatives?
snappy - DEPRECATED - please use https://github.com/Brooooooklyn/snappy. Nodejs bindings to Google's Snappy compression library
gRPC - The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
pbf - A low-level, lightweight protocol buffers implementation in JavaScript.
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
compactr - Schema based serialization made easy
FlatBuffers - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
Vicis - Presentation and transformation layer for data output in RESTful APIs.
ZeroMQ - ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1
TypeScript - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
Apache Thrift - Apache Thrift
opentelemetry-proto - OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) specification and Protobuf definitions
MessagePack - MessagePack serializer implementation for Java / msgpack.org[Java]