Create your own code generator with protobufs and protoc-gen-star
Details
Protocol buffers are a great tool for serializing type-safe data. On top of that, there are a bunch of code generators built around the spec (e.g. gRPC). If you want to leverage the tooling to create your own generator it can be daunting. But Lyft released an awesome library called protoc-gen-star which makes it easier than ever to create your own generators around protobuf definitions.
We will talk about protobufs briefly, dive a bit deeper into how the protoc executable works, then will show an example generator we have built at weave to get rid of some boilerplate code.
Dinner will be provided. Please RSVP so we know how much food to order.
6:15 - Dinner
6:30 - Presentation
7:30 - Stick around and talk about technical challenges
