An experiment building a custom binary protocol for a calculator

Last update: Nov 28, 2021

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Overview

Implementation of a calculator service built on a custom protocol on top of TCP

Details

The server is in main.go, and the client is in client/client.go Run go test from the client package to see a set of end to end examples

Protocol Details

The first byte is used to represent an operation code. The next two bytes represent the length in bytes of two varint encoded operands. The remaining bytes contain varint encoded bytes for the two operands

More info

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding

https://carlmastrangelo.com/blog/lets-make-a-varint

Owner

Preetha

Engineering Director, working @hashicorp on fun distributed systems problems. Formerly principal engineer @indeedeng

https://github.com/preetapan/learnprotocol

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