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 ...

an IDL to describe data formats a binary encoding scheme to encode formats described in the IDL data binding support using code generators, with Google providing C++, Python, Java implementations The ...

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.