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Sun, Dec 1, 2019

Go: Introduction to Protobuf: Messages

In it’s most basic ways, protocol buffers or protobufs are an approach to serialize structured data with minimal overhead. They require that the data structures be known and compatible between the client and server, unlike JSON where the structure itself is part of the encoding.

Next level Go testing

Go makes it very easy to write tests. In fact, the test tool is built in the standard toolchain, and you can just run go test to run your tests, without installing extra dependencies or anything else. The testing package is part of the standard library, and it’s use, I’m happy to observe, is pretty wide spread.