Mar 3 · 9 min read · Schema Validation Tools: Zod, JSON Schema, and Protobuf Compared TypeScript gives you compile-time types, but types disappear at runtime. Data from APIs, form inputs, environment variables, and external services arrives as unknown at best and any at ...
Join discussionMar 3 · 8 min read · gRPC and Protocol Buffers: A Developer's Guide gRPC is Google's open-source RPC framework, and Protocol Buffers (protobuf) are its IDL and serialization format. If REST is the lingua franca of web APIs, gRPC is the dialect used when teams care about ...
Join discussionMar 3 · 8 min read · Data Serialization Formats: JSON vs MessagePack vs Protocol Buffers vs Avro vs Parquet Every application serializes data. APIs encode responses, services pass messages, databases store records, and pipelines transform datasets. JSON is the default ch...
Join discussionMar 3 · 10 min read · Code Generation Tools: When Codegen Helps and When It Creates Tech Debt Code generation sits on a spectrum. On one end, you have tools that generate types from a schema -- strictly additive, easy to regenerate, hard to screw up. On the other end, you...
Join discussionFeb 5 · 10 min read · gRPC is an open source RPC framework that enables efficient communication using Protocol Buffer based binary protocol over HTTP/2. Unlike REST, gRPC requires both client and server to share the same Protocol Buffer contract. This setup works well for...
Join discussionJan 23 · 4 min read · Introduction: The Constraints of the Edge The Internet of Things (IoT) operates under constraints that traditional enterprise software rarely faces: intermittent network connectivity, limited battery life, and constrained processing power. In this en...
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Jan 22 · 8 min read · What I learned building MicroBuf, a small gRPC + NATS experiment that taught me more than 6 months of reading Medium posts Why I Built This I've been a backend engineer for about 18 months now. Most of my work has been on REST APIs—Node.js services t...
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Jan 21 · 2 min read · Flutter is often seen as a UI framework for building beautiful mobile apps. But over the past few years, Flutter has evolved into something much more powerful: the foundation of a full-stack development approach powered entirely by Dart. Today, devel...
Join discussionJan 8 · 4 min read · Summary With the rapid growth in digital currency trading volumes, the efficiency and stability of real-time data push services have become crucial. MEXC Exchange's latest WebSocket push solution based on Protocol Buffers (protobuf) offers higher tra...
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Dec 23, 2025 · 13 min read · The selection of a message serialization format is rarely a neutral technical decision. It is a fundamental architectural choice that dictates the long-term scalability, maintainability, and operational cost of a distributed system. In the early days...
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