An open-source protocol from Google that is used to encode and parse text-based XML data in a binary format. Using an interface description language (IDL) to define any XML structure, the XML is ...

Protocol Buffers allow you to define simple data structures in a special definition language, then compile them to produce classes to represent those structures in the language of your choice. These ...

ASP.Net Web API is a lightweight framework used for building stateless and RESTful HTTP services. Protocol Buffers from Google is an extremely fast, language independent, platform-neutral, extensible ...

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 tool, ...

If you've ever wondered how Google manages to deal with all the information thrown at it in a given second, much less an hour or day, then listen up because we now know the answer: Protocol Buffers.

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IAB Tech Lab, the global digital advertising technical standards-setting body, today announced the release of a proposed standard Protocol Buffers representation of the OpenRTB specification. This ...