Monday Mini: Protobufs from JSON in Java

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