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JSON vs FlatBuffers vs Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffers gRPC
  1. A method for serializing and interchanging structured data.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Protobuf (Protocol Buffers), created by Google, is, according to the official website :.

    #Developer Tools #Web Servers #Configuration Management 24 social mentions

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    Application and Data, Languages & Frameworks, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and Service Discovery
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Generally used in conjunction with gRPC (but not necessarily), Protobuf is a binary protocol that significantly increases performance compared to the text format of JSON. But it "suffers" from the same problem as JSON: we need to parse it to a data structure of our language. For example, in Go:.

    #Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 97 social mentions

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