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vtprotobuf reviews and mentions

• Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2024
• Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication – F. Werner's Research Page
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2024

  I super dug the talk Building SpiceDB: A gRPC-First Database - Jimmy Zelinskie, authzed which is about a high-performance auth system, which talks to this.

  It's a 4-tier arhcitecture (clients - front end service - query service - database) auth system, and all communication is over grpc (except to the database). Jimmy talks about the advantages of having a very clear contract between systems.

  There's a ton of really great nitrt gritty detail about being super fast with gRPC. https://github.com/planetscale/vtprotobuf for statical-size allocating protobuf rather than slow reflection-based dynamic size. Upcoming memory pooling work to avoid allocations at all. Tons of advantages for observability right out of the box. It's subtle but I also get the impression most gRPC stubs are miserably bad, that Authzed had to go long and far to get away from a lot of gRPC tarpits.

  This is one of my favorite talks from 2024, and strongly sold me.on how viable gRPC is for internal services. Even if I were doing local multi-process stuff, I would definitely consider gRPC after this talk. The structure & clarity & observability are huge wins, and the performance can be really good if you need it.

  https://youtu.be/1PiknT36218#t=12m 12min is the internal cluster details.

• Show HN: Protobuf-go-lite: reflection-free protobuf for Go with JSON support
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Nov 2024

  Hi HN,

  protobuf-go is a widely used binary serialization library and IDL for protobuf in Go. The upstream library leverages reflection to provide a wide variety of features which are useful in a server context.

  Go is increasingly being used for resource-constrained environments like embedded (tinygo) and WebAssembly. In these environments, reflection is not always available, and when it is, it adds significant weight to the binary size.

  vtprotobuf: https://github.com/planetscale/vtprotobuf - compiles static code generation for Protobufs in go, including functions to marshal, unmarshal, size, clone, messages. However, it still requires protobuf-go and the reflection-based code for the message structs.

  protobuf-go-lite takes this one step further with a stripped-down version of the protobuf-go code generator modified to work without reflection and merged with vtprotobuf to provide modular features with static code generation for marshal/unmarshal, size, clone, and equal. It bundles a fork of protoc-gen-go-json for JSON support.

  It has already been used (experimentally) for a reflection-free version of OpenTelemetry for Go: https://github.com/gburek-fastly/opentelemetry-proto-go/pull... as well as other projects at Aperture Robotics.

  Thanks & have a great Friday!

  ~ Christian Stewart

• 2022-01-11 gRPC benchmark results
  4 projects | /r/golang | 12 Jan 2022

  I ran the benchmark on my device. Vitess proto library improves ~30% req/s linearly with default config and 8 cpu client.

• This repository provides the protoc-gen-go-vtproto plug-in for protoc, which is used by Vitess to generate optimized marshall & unmarshal code.
  1 project | /r/golang | 6 Jun 2021
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