Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster. The ...

LinkedIn adopted Protocol Buffers for exchanging data between microservices more efficiently across its platform and integrated it with Rest.li, their open-source REST framework. After the company ...

A number of different binary messaging formats have emerged over the last couple of years including the finance industry’s Fast Protocol, Google Protocol Buffers, Apache Avro, Facebook’s Thrift, and ...

Unlike XML — which Google developers describe as "an extremely expensive proposition" when you have as much traffic as they do — Protocol Buffers allow the developer to "define how you want your data ...

According to Philips, there’s one drawback to HTTP/2 and gRPC/protocol buffers: Since they’re both binary, compressed formats, they aren’t directly human-readable. For those used to JSON as ...