At the end of 2020 I had learnt a lot about programming in rust-lang and had worked on some large codebases, all while doing some interesting system implementations on the side. We had planned to implement our thesis project by the end of the academic year, but faced a lot of challenges in getting started, procrastination had hit us hard. By January I felt we had done enough experimentation and that we needed to do some "real" work, and hence got started on implementing a core piece of the puzzle, the partially distributed datastore, which consisted of a central server and multiple clients with the ability to cache values and check if invalidated.
To do this, I had to learn gRPC, for which I figured out Tonic would be a great place to start with, and thus, with the code that @bkp31415 had written in proto3, I got started implementing what would be [the first iteration of dstore's gRPC API](https://github.com/vyuham/dstore/commit/727d56de805
