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Learning Google Protocol Buffers with Python - Part 3

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In the last article, we introduced some key syntax and features of proto3 with Google Protocol Buffers. This time, we’ll delve into how to write more complex messages, and introduce some convenient data types along with how to use them.

Posted on  Nov 9, 2018  in  Python Programming - Advanced Level  by  Amo Chen  ‐ 5 min read

Learning Google Protocol Buffers with Python - Part 2

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In the previous post, we introduced the basics of using Google Protocol Buffers (proto3) with Python. In this post, we’ll delve further into some key syntax and features of proto3.

Posted on  Nov 3, 2018  in  Python Programming - Advanced Level  by  Amo Chen  ‐ 4 min read

Learning Google Protocol Buffers with Python - Part 1

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The blog post What I Learned from Quip on How to Build a Product on 8 Different Platforms with Only 13 Engineers explains how Quip managed to build products for 8 different platforms with only a 13-member team. It’s definitely something worth learning from.

A key concept from the post is Build once, use multiple times. It encourages minimizing the repetition of creating the same components, thereby increasing the reusability of components. The article also reveals that Quip heavily uses Google Protocol Buffers. By defining data structures using Google Protocol Buffers, automatic code generation can occur for reading and writing the same data structure across various languages or platforms. It can even act as a data exchange format to transfer between different platforms, reducing repetitive development costs and thus improving development efficiency.

With such a handy tool, let’s learn Google Protocol Buffers using Python!

Posted on  Oct 27, 2018  in  Python Programming - Advanced Level  by  Amo Chen  ‐ 5 min read