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Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)
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Protocol Buffers, also known as Protobuf, is a binary serialization format developed by Google for efficiently serializing and deserializing structured data. Protobuf offers a compact and efficient way to represent data objects in a binary format, making it suitable for communication between software systems and for storing data on disk. It uses a language-neutral interface definition language (IDL) to define the structure of data objects, including their fields, types, and encoding rules. Protobuf schemas are defined in .proto files, which are then compiled into language-specific code for use in software applications. Protobuf supports various data types, including scalar types (e.g., integers, floating-point numbers), composite types (e.g., messages, enums), and repeated fields (arrays). Protobuf provides several benefits over other serialization formats, including smaller message sizes, faster serialization and deserialization, and language independence. It is widely used in distributed systems, microservices architectures, and high-performance computing environments where efficient data serialization is critical for performance and scalability.
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Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is a free and open-source cross-platform data format used to serialize structured data. It is useful in developing programs that communicate with each other over a network or for storing data. The method involves an interface description language that describes the structure of some data and a program that generates source code from that description for generating or parsing a stream of bytes that represents the structured data.
Installation
Install on Windows with Chocolatey
Chocolatey install via choco install
- Update all first: choco upgrade all -y