Beyond protoc --decode: Schema Inference, Lossless Decoding, and... Frederic Ruget, S3NS

Why watch

A technical deep-dive demonstrating prototools, a pair of open-source CLI tools (prototext and reproto) that solve advanced protobuf debugging challenges. The talk shows schema inference for decoding binary protobuf without original descriptors, lossless decoding that preserves non-canonical bytes, and reconstructing compilable .proto files from any FileDescriptorSet. Built around live terminal demos for gRPC engineers facing unknown binary blobs or incompatible descriptor formats.