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A client and server need to exchange information via messages. TCP and UDP provide the transport mechanisms to do this. The two processes also need to have a protocol in place so that message exchange can take place meaningfully.
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I’m treating serialization and marshalling as synonomous. There are a variety of opinions on this, some more language-specific than others. See, for example, “What is the difference between Serialization and Marshaling?”
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Newmarch, J. (2017). Data Serialization. In: Network Programming with Go. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2692-6_4
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