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What are protocol buffers (protobuf)?

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What are protocol buffers (protobuf)?

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- [Instructor] According to Google, protocol buffers, or protobufs, are Google's language-neutral, platform neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. Think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. Protobufs are a combo of definition language, the code that the proto compiler generates to interface with data, language-specific runtime libraries, and the serialization format for data that is written to a file or sent across a network connection. The idea being, you define the structure of your data once in protobufs, and then generate language-specific libraries for you to use in your services. With proto3, you can generate code in Java, Python, Objective-C, C++, Kotlin, Dart, Go, Ruby, PHP, and C#. Because protobufs support adding or updating definitions only in a way that won't impact the usage of previous versions, you won't be forced to update your code to the latest version, which means no breaking…

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