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Apache Thrift
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Symfony in microservice architecture - Episode I : Symfony and Golang communication through gRPC
There are various notable implementations of RPC like Apache Thrift and gRPC.
- What is gRPC popularity? I believe not very popular. And subreddit is small. Why is that?
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Fresh – The next-gen web framework
> That's just your choice of how to build your app, right? You could've avoided this by rendering templates on the server and sending static HTML to the client, keeping the business logic on the server.
No, that's a requirement on most business cases, my comment stated 'complex and dynamic web apps'. Re-rendering the whole page everytime the user checks a box or clicks a button is (a) terrible UX, (b) hard to track the state between page refresh, (c) wrong practice and (d) bad performance.
> Here's just one of ten-thousand other battle-tested options you can use: https://github.com/apache/thrift/
Sure, I should setup a complex and huge dependency for just one of the many problems I highlighted. What a great idea
- Ask HN: Who Wants to Collaborate?
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Deadline Budget Propagation for Baseplate.py
Thus, we released Baseplate.py v2.1 with deadline propagation. Each request between Baseplate services has an associated THeader, which includes relevant information for Baseplate to fulfill its functionality, such as tracing request timings. We added a “Deadline-Budget” field to this header that propagates the remaining timeout so that information is available to the following request, and this timeout continues to get updated with every new request made. With this update, we save production costs by allowing resources to work on requests awaiting a response, and gain overall improved latency.
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If someone ever asks you why you use Apollo, show them this screenshot.
Here’s an example of the Thrift changelog. Knock yourself out. Or you can get your sense of productivity by actually doing something of value.
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parquet2 0.3.0, with native support to read async
The biggest addition is native async reading via futures::AsyncRead and futures::AsyncSeek, which required a lot of (to be merged) changes upstream (changes to thrift rust compiler and parquet-format-rs). I placed those changes on a temporary crate until things are released there.
- proposal: expression to create pointer to simple types #45624
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Can you share your experience with race conditions in production?
We were sharing instances of a Thrift TDeserializer across threads. We knew TProtocol was not thread-safe, but the TDeserializer constructor accepts a TProtocolFactory, so we naively assumed the deserialize method would use that to create a new instance of TProtocol for each invocation, but unfortunately, the TDeserializer constructor immediately creates TProtocol and stores it in a member variable, so TDeserializer is not actually thread-safe.
Protobuf
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Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries
For at least 4 years protobuf has had decent support for self-describing messages (very similar to avro) as well as reflection
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/src/go...
Xgooglers trying to make do on the cheap will just create a Union of all their messages and include the message def in a self-describing message pattern. Super-sensitive network I/O can elide the message def (empty buffer) and any for RecordIO clone well file compression takes care of the definition.
Definitely useful to be able to dig out old defs but protobuf maintainers have surprisingly added useful features so you don’t have to.
Bonus points tho for extracting the protobuf defs that e.g. Apple bakes into their binaries.
- Show HN: AuthWin – Authenticator App for Windows
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Create Production-Ready SDKs With gRPC Gateway
gRPC Gateway is a protoc plugin that reads gRPC service definitions and generates a reverse proxy server that translates a RESTful JSON API into gRPC.
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Create Production-Ready SDKs with Goa
To use more recent versions of protoc in future applications, you can download them from the Protobuf repository.
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Roll your own auth with Rust and Protobuf
Use the Protobuf CLI protoc and the plugin protoc-gen-tonic.
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Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not
> didn’t find any standard for separating protobuf messages
The fact that protobufs are not self-delimiting is an endless source of frustration, but I know of 2 standards:
- SerializeDelimited* is part of the protobuf library: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/src/go...
- Riegeli is "a file format for storing a sequence of string records, typically serialized protocol buffers. It supports dense compression, fast decoding, seeking, detection and optional skipping of data corruption, filtering of proto message fields for even faster decoding, and parallel encoding": https://github.com/google/riegeli
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Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping Ads from Profobuf
It looks like it is in fact universal. Just glancing at the code here, it looks like the tool searches any arbitrary file for bytes that look like encoded protobuf descriptors, specifically looking for bytes that are plausibly the beginning of a FileDescriptorProto message defined here:
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/src/go...
This takes advantage of the fact that such descriptors are commonly compiled into programs that use protobuf. The descriptors are usually embedded as constant byte arrays. That said, not all protobuf implementations embed the descriptors and those that do often have an option to inhibit such embedding (at the expense of losing some dynamic introspection features).
- How to learn to use protoc in 21 easily infuriating steps
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What's involved in protobuf encoding?
Not much. You can check the source code in https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf. For example, for serializing a boolean in C#: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/csharp/src/Google.Protobuf/WritingPrimitives.cs#L165. Strings and objects are a bit more complicated, but it is all about turning the data into its byte representation.
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Trying To Solve The Confusion of Choice Between gRPC vs REST🕵
One of the key feature of gRPC is protobuf .proto file(nothing but just a contract for me between two communicator code components) This file and protobuff compiler is so mature, then it generates a direct client implementation using protoccompiler. ref
What are some alternatives?
gRPC - The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
FlatBuffers - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
ZeroMQ - ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1
SBE - Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) - High Performance Message Codec
Cap'n Proto - Cap'n Proto serialization/RPC system - core tools and C++ library
MessagePack - MessagePack implementation for C and C++ / msgpack.org[C/C++]
Apache Avro - Apache Avro is a data serialization system.
cereal - A C++11 library for serialization
Apache Parquet - Apache Parquet
nanomsg - nanomsg library
Bond - Bond is a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. It supports cross-language de/serialization and powerful generic mechanisms for efficiently manipulating data. Bond is broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services.