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Protocol Buffers
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Protocol Buffers (protobuf) is Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral
Interface Definition Language (IDL) and binary serialization format.
Messages are defined in .proto files and compiled by protoc into
language-specific code for Go, Python, Java, C++, TypeScript, and many
other languages.
Protobuf encoding is significantly more compact and faster to serialize/
deserialize than JSON or XML, making it ideal for high-throughput RPC
and storage. It is the wire format for gRPC, Google Cloud APIs, and many
internal service meshes. Proto3 simplified the schema language; editions
(proto3.5+) refine field presence semantics. The buf CLI and BSR (Buf
Schema Registry) provide modern tooling for schema management and
breaking-change detection.