kchristidis

There doesn't seem to be a good resource online describing the issues with protocol buffers and deterministic serialization (or lack thereof). This is a collection of links on the subject.

Protocol Buffers v3.0.0. release notes:

The deterministic serialization is, however, NOT canonical across languages; it is also unstable across different builds with schema changes due to unknown fields.

Maps documentation:

Wire format ordering and map iteration ordering of map values is undefined, so you cannot rely on your map items being in a particular order.

macintux

• https://ferd.ca/a-distributed-systems-reading-list.html
• http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/distributed-systems-theory-for-the-distributed-systems-engineer/
• https://github.com/palvaro/CMPS290S-Winter16/blob/master/readings.md
• http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-distributed-systems-seminars-reading.html
• http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07/12/readings-in-distributed-systems.html
• http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/11/06/distributed-systems-archaeology-works-cited.html
• http://rxin.github.io/db-readings/
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.html
• http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/dsrg/papers/
• http://scalingsystems.com/2011/09/07/reading-list-for-distributed-systems/