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.

Message serialization goes by a variety of names like “marshalling” or “packing” but all fall under the umbrella of declaring the structure by which messages are assembled. Message serialization is ...

It's a common problem in computer science: how do you get data from one part of your program to another part? What if the two parts were written by different people, at different times, in different ...

With the 1.0 release of its gRPC protocol, Google aims to provide a next-generation standard for server-to-server communications in an age of cloud microservices. Both features are meant to improve ...