Kleppman ch. 4 -- Encoding and Evolution

Chapter 4 of (Kleppman) Designing Data-Intensive Systems

• Don’t use the built-in serializer from your favorite programming language (187)
• Pros and cons of using a text-based data encoding (188)
• Apache Thrift
  • BinaryProtocol vs CompactProtocol (Apache Thrift) (195)
• Protocol Buffers (protobuf) (197)
• Comparing Thrift and protobuf (193, 197-8)
• Avro (200)
  • Avro schema declaration (200)
  • Avro encoding (201)
  • Avro reader’s vs writer’s schema (201-2)
  • Avro dynamically generated schemas (205)
• Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
  • Remote procedure calls (RPCs) are sort of a lie (218)
  • Evolvability of RPCs (221)