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Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster. The tool, ...

The latest addition to Google's growing open-source code library, as of Monday, is an information description language (IDL) technology called Protocol Buffers. That's computer science lingo for the ...

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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 ...

Actually, what’s being released is a rewritten Version 2 of Protocol Buffers; internally, Google mainly uses an earlier spaghetti version. However, Google says it’s moving to Version 2. Google further ...

ASP.Net Web API is a lightweight framework used for building stateless and RESTful HTTP services. Protocol Buffers from Google is an extremely fast, language independent, platform-neutral, extensible ...

An open-source protocol from Google that is used to encode and parse text-based XML data in a binary format. Using an interface description language (IDL) to define any XML structure, the XML is ...

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.