A quick tour of protobuf in microservice architecture

• A quick tour of protobuf in microservice architecture
  • Contact
  • Setup
    • Clone
    • Requirements
    • protoc
    • Protobuf and gRPC toolchain for go
    • Protobuf and gRPC toolchain for java
  • Usage
    • Start the server
    • Start the client
  • Links

Contact

• Cédric THOMAS (email: cedric@reyah.eu)

Setup

Clone

git clone https://github.com/ReyahSolutions/protobuf-tutorial

Requirements

• Go
• Java
• Make

protoc

• protoc: allows to generate gRPC server and client specifications.
  Download protoc the recommended way for your system.

Protobuf and gRPC toolchain for go

To generate Go code for gRPC services from Protobuf definitions, you'll need the following tools:

• protoc-gen-go: allows to generate Go code from Protobuf files
• protoc-gen-go-grpc: allows to generate Go code from Protobuf file specifically for gRPC.

These tools are automatically installed when running the client:

make install-tools

Protobuf and gRPC toolchain for java

Everything is automatically installed and generated when running:

make run

Usage

Start the server

cd server
make run

Start the client

cd client
make run

Links

• Protocol buffers
• GRPC
• Awesome GRPC
• 12factor

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