Introduction to Protocol Buffers (gRPC Tutorial using buf) with Golang/Ruby Examples

Welcome to this System Design video in Golang, in this video I introduce Protocol Buffers to you, the basics required for starting to use it with Golang, including relevant tools like a linter called "buf" and a formatting tool called "clang-format".

== What are Protocol Buffers?

Protocol Buffers, also known as Protobuf, is a data format used to serialize structured data. It can used by programs to communicate with each other over a network or for storing data. It uses an interface description language that describes the structure of some data and includes a collection of program to generates source code from that description.

== What Programming Languages are supported by Protocol Buffers?

Officially, the supported programming languages are: C++, Java, Python, Go, Ruby, Objective, C# and JavaScript. The community supports Ballerina, C, Dart, Elixir, Erlang, Haskell, Perl, PHP, R, Rust, Scala, Swift, Julia and Nim.

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00:00 - Start
00:12 - What are Protocol Buffers (protobuf)?
00:31 - What are the Programming Languages supported by Protocol Buffers (protobuf)?
00:56 - What are the alternatives to Protocol Buffers (protobuf)?
01:31 - Example of Protocol Buffers (protobuf) using Go/Golang
03:14 - Using buf to manage Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
04:36 - Working with Protocol Buffers (protobuf) with buf
06:16 - Linting Protocol Buffers (protobuf) with buf
07:34 - Types in Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
08:12 - Options in Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
08:57 - Generating Protocol Buffers (protobuf) code using buf
10:29 - Formatting Protocol Buffers (protobuf) using clang-format
11:46 - Interoperability example using Protocol Buffers (protobuf) in Go/Golang and Ruby
13:48 - Conclusion

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[pooladkhay]

Awesome! Looking forward to see a complete gRPC series soon.

[megadrocks]

@Mario Carrion Thanks for the great video, one small addition - currently buf config init has been replaced by buf mod init.

[tony-go-code]

I'm waiting for this series so long. Thq will follow to complete.

[Peter-xnbk]

That awesome ! Thanks so much from Viet Nam

[farzadmf]

Nice video, thank you! I recently learned about buf but haven't used it; seems like a nice tool

[vincentyoumans]

Fantastic video... I would definitely pay $ for more... Comment, at 3:24, you say the command is 'buf config init'. I believe the new cli command is 'buf mod init'.

[codelinx]

This video is a mess. So I understand what you are trying to show here, but the layout is not clean for someone without experience in this realm. Bouncing around with different languages is jarring.