On my pet project, I am using protocol buffers as Interface Language (IDL). Using a simple, shared definition should speed things up, right? Well, kind of! Protocol Buffers are a message format commonly used in combination with Remote Procedure Calls (RPC; or specifically, GRPC if you’re doing RPC with protobufs). If you’re working in a microservices world, you can’t really just assume every service uses these protocol buffered messages (I’ll just call them protobufs from now on) over an RPC styled interface. Read more

A standardized library available to help developers in things like look-ups, persistence, security or messaging, has been a goal for platform creators since before even J2EE was first released. Today, we look at the latest incarnation of this goal. It’s called DAPR, and it’s made by Microsoft. Let’s go! Oh no, he didn’t Did he compare the latest hippest, fanciest, shiny technology to hit the market with the old-aged brontosaurus that is Java Enterprise? Read more