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Practical API Design at Netflix, Part 1: Using Protobuf FieldMask

The Netflix TechBlog

By Alex Borysov , Ricky Gardiner Background At Netflix, we heavily use gRPC for the purpose of backend to backend communication. When we process a request it is often beneficial to know which fields the caller is interested in and which ones they ignore. Some response fields can be expensive to compute, some fields can require remote calls to other services.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web. Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web. Berwyn Powell. 2021-09-03T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-03T15:05:53+00:00. As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact.

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