Conversation

Notices

1. INACTIVE (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2017 23:30:57 EDT INACTIVE

   gRPC talk at Touch of Modern tonight was interesting. Still, this technology seems to deprecate JSON in favor of passing binary data around?

   1. INACTIVE (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2017 23:31:24 EDT INACTIVE

      in reply to

      Like, the performance gain is interesting, and it seems to be geared for large companies running microservices. Could it hinder open web projects?

      1. INACTIVE (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2017 23:31:55 EDT INACTIVE

         in reply to

         A lot of open source projects and hobbyist tools are largely dependent on JSON; it's an interface for hackers to scratch their own itch?

         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2017 23:48:22 EDT lnxw48a1

            in reply to
            @deadsuperhero I suppose people would adapt, as long as there were open schemas available for each data {transmission, storage} format.
            1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2017 00:06:55 EDT clacke

               in reply to
               @lnxw48a1 @deadsuperhero This ties into the loong list of serialization formats that starts at https://social.heldscal.la/notice/2102741 .
               1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2017 00:08:51 EDT clacke

                  in reply to
                  @lnxw48a1 @deadsuperhero Ah, http://www.grpc.io/ is a Googly thing that uses Protobuf.
                  
                  Yeah, Protobuf is not self-describing like JSON. Your code has to know what the data structures look like, so you'd better hope there's a schema. You're not going to trivially figure out from observation what you're expected to be able to put in there.