Mar 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 discussionJan 16 · 2 min read · Bazel 9.0 is a major long-term support (LTS) release. It contains new features and backwards incompatible changes. Bzlmod is now always enabled, and all WORKSPACE logic has been removed from Bazel (#26131). The Bzlmod migration tool is available. A...
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Nov 16, 2025 · 18 min read · What is gRPC? If you’ve been building mobile or web apps for a while, you’re likely intimately familiar with REST APIs. We spend a lot of time debating HTTP verbs, managing routes, and—my personal headache—parsing JSON. gRPC (Google Remote Procedure ...
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Aug 22, 2025 · 20 min read · In 2025, protocol buffers set the standard for serialization efficiency and speed. Recent benchmarks reveal that protobuf delivers message serialization in under 2,000 nanoseconds per operation with minimal memory overhead, outperforming JSON and XML...
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Jun 12, 2025 · 13 min read · “Data is the elixir of the digital age.“ This reflection only finds ever-increasing relevance, as technology continues to evolve exponentially. The fashion of knowledge and intelligence consumption may change over time, but most of the computational...
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Jan 2, 2025 · 3 min read · In system design interviews high level design is relatively simpler if you know the basic building blocks. For low level design you are expected to design the API interfaces. How would you do that ? A lot of people either like to talk in terms of RES...
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Oct 31, 2024 · 7 min read · In today's software development landscape, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) play a crucial role in enabling communication between different systems. Among the various types of APIs available, GraphQL, REST, and gRPC are three of the most pop...
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May 21, 2024 · 11 min read · Requirement: Python 3.x version IDE (Suggestion VS code) pip version 9.0.1 or higher Pre-requisite knowledge: Basic understanding of RPC Basic understanding of protocol buffers What is gRPC? Imagine you want to communicate with a friend who ...
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May 20, 2024 · 8 min read · Introduction I am excited to share this comprehensive blog series on gRPC, a powerful framework for efficient and high-performance remote procedure calls (RPC) across various tech stacks. This blog has been in development for quite some time, and I a...
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Jan 2, 2024 · 7 min read · A few years back, Google announced the DataStore, which is a replacement for the tried and true SharedPreferences. If you use or have used SharedPreferences in your applications, you might be thinking of making the switch. But as with everything, th...
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