Protocol Buffers
Also known as Protobuf
Google's open-source, cross-platform format for serializing structured data.
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- Protocol Buffers serializes structured data for programs that talk over a network or store data.
- A schema language describes the data and a compiler, protoc, generates code from it.
- Google built it for internal use and open-sourced it in 2008.
Why it matters
- It underlies nearly all inter-machine communication at Google and is widely used outside it.
- Open-sourced
- 7 July 20082
- Developed by
- Google1
- Version 2
- Mostly written by Kenton Varda, who made it an open source project3
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