A comprehensive guide to building and operating a Protocol Buffers schema registry, covering architecture patterns, governance models, tooling integration, and the operational practices that keep a registry healthy as it scales.
A business and architecture-focused guide to adopting Protocol Buffers as the standard contract language across a microservices ecosystem, covering shared types, dependency management, team workflows, and the role of a centralized schema registry.
A business-oriented guide to API versioning with Protocol Buffers, covering when and how to version, migration strategies, multi-version support, and the organizational processes that make versioning sustainable.
A rigorous examination of Protocol Buffers serialization performance, including benchmarks against JSON and other formats, memory allocation analysis, and practical optimization techniques for high-throughput systems.
An exploration of the contract-first development methodology using Protocol Buffers, showing how defining schemas before writing implementation code leads to better APIs, faster integration, and fewer production incidents.
A balanced comparison of gRPC and REST for inter-service communication, examining performance, developer experience, ecosystem maturity, and practical guidance for when to use each approach.
A detailed walkthrough of using Buf's linting and breaking change detection tools to enforce schema quality and backward compatibility in a Protocol Buffers registry.
A practical guide to automating protobuf code generation across multiple languages, covering toolchain setup, Buf-based workflows, CI integration, and strategies for managing generated code in a monorepo or multi-repo environment.
A comprehensive guide to evolving Protocol Buffers schemas in production without breaking existing clients, covering backward and forward compatibility, field lifecycle management, and migration patterns.
An in-depth exploration of Protocol Buffers schema design principles, covering message structure, field types, naming conventions, and best practices for building robust inter-service contracts.