Polyglot comms - Protocol Buffers and Thrift and what they do for you

We live in a world where it is more and more commonplace to work in a polyglot environment, communications between disparate services is commonplace, and the need to transmit messages between those services (likely written in various languages) is a must.

Come learn about Google's Protocol Buffers (https://github.com/google/protobuf) and Facebook's (now Apache) Thrift (https://thrift.apache.org/) and why they are often times a better "wire-protocol" than the more ubiquitous formats of JSON and XML. Take a look at the pros and cons of each and see a demo of how they can be used to achieve data sanity in a multi-language environment.

7:00 - 7:15 - Introductions

7:15 - 7:30 - Announcements

7:30 - 8:30 - Main talk

8:30 - ? - Lightning talks / general discussion

I am looking for anyone interested in doing a 5-15 minute lightning talk