Comment by sour-taste 5 years ago Everything at google is built on RPCs between systems using protobufs 6 comments sour-taste Reply ma2rten 5 years ago Protobuf is also used as a format to write data to disk. alephnan 5 years ago Why is this being down voted? It's accurate. randomswede 5 years ago And one of the more important things done at the very beginning of each and every HTTP(S) request is packaging the web request up in a protobuf and send it onwards from the loadbalancer. barbazoo 5 years ago So downstream from the LB it's no longer HTTP? Or is every component just protobuf "aware"? h43k3r 5 years ago Yes TheReveller 5 years ago Also extensively for database column data types.
ma2rten 5 years ago Protobuf is also used as a format to write data to disk. alephnan 5 years ago Why is this being down voted? It's accurate.
randomswede 5 years ago And one of the more important things done at the very beginning of each and every HTTP(S) request is packaging the web request up in a protobuf and send it onwards from the loadbalancer. barbazoo 5 years ago So downstream from the LB it's no longer HTTP? Or is every component just protobuf "aware"? h43k3r 5 years ago Yes
barbazoo 5 years ago So downstream from the LB it's no longer HTTP? Or is every component just protobuf "aware"? h43k3r 5 years ago Yes
Protobuf is also used as a format to write data to disk.
Why is this being down voted? It's accurate.
And one of the more important things done at the very beginning of each and every HTTP(S) request is packaging the web request up in a protobuf and send it onwards from the loadbalancer.
So downstream from the LB it's no longer HTTP? Or is every component just protobuf "aware"?
Yes
Also extensively for database column data types.