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gRPC Go for Professionals

You're reading from   gRPC Go for Professionals Implement, test, and deploy production-grade microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837638840
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Clément Jean Clément Jean
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Networking Primer 2. Chapter 2: Protobuf Primer FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Introduction to gRPC 4. Chapter 4: Setting Up a Project 5. Chapter 5: Types of gRPC Endpoints 6. Chapter 6: Designing Effective APIs 7. Chapter 7: Out-of-the-Box Features 8. Chapter 8: More Essential Features 9. Chapter 9: Production-Grade APIs 10. Epilogue
11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Quiz

  1. Why is it not always more optimal to use varint for integer types?
    1. No reason, they are always more optimal than fixed integers
    2. varint encoding serializes bigger numbers into a bigger amount of bytes
    3. varint encoding serializes smaller numbers into a bigger amount of bytes
  2. How can we get the number of bytes a message will be serialized into?
    1. proto.Marshal + len
    2. proto.UnMarshal + len
    3. len
  3. What kind of tag should we give to fields that are often populated?
    1. Bigger tags
    2. Smaller tags
  4. What is the main problem of splitting messages to use smaller tags?
    1. We have overhead because sub-messages are serialized as length-delimited types
    2. No problem – this is the way to go
  5. What is FieldMask?
    1. A collection of fields’ paths telling us what data to exclude
    2. A collection of fields’ paths telling us what data to include
  6. When is a repeated field serialized as unpacked?
    1. When repeated fields are acting on scalar types
    2. Only when we use the packed option with the value false
    3. When...
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