Protocol Buffers from Google is an extremely fast, language independent, platform-neutral, extensible and easy-to-use binary serialization format that enables you to serialize structured data.

But what goes inside each message can be structured differently. A schemafull serialization scheme specifies the structure – and in some ways the content – of your data as part of the protocol.

These classes come complete with heavily-optimized code to parse and serialize your message in an extremely compact format. You can think of protocol buffers as kind of a cross between XML and IDL ...

protocol buffers 2 Articles The Seedy World Of Message Serialization June 10, 2020 by Kerry Scharfglass 26 Comments ...

Connections between servers with HTTP/2 are supposed to be faster and more efficient, and Google claims it’s faster still to serialize and deserialize the data with protocol buffers than with JSON.