I encourage anyone to study these protocols, they are sometimes a lot more prevalent than one might think. Take the Postgres wire protocol, it's supported by a number of databases out there.
Some years I built a data grepping tool, but didn't want to build a UI around it, so I started looking into the Postgres protocol, so that I could plug in existing tools. Getting the basics right was not that difficult, the docs are pretty clear. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/protocol.html
Some years I built a data grepping tool, but didn't want to build a UI around it, so I started looking into the Postgres protocol, so that I could plug in existing tools. Getting the basics right was not that difficult, the docs are pretty clear. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/protocol.html