Introduction to Protocol Buffers

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Google Protocol Buffer (Protobuf for short) is a mixed language data standard within Google, which has more than 48162 message format definitions and more than 12183 .proto files.

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Google Protocol Buffer (Protobuf for short) is a mixed language data standard within Google, which has more than 48162 message format definitions and more than 12183 .proto files.

They are used in RPC systems and continuous data storage systems.

Protocol Buffers is a lightweight and efficient structured data storage format that can be used for structured data serialization, or serialization.

It is very suitable for data storage or RPC data exchange format. Can be used in communication protocols, data storage and other fields of language-independent, platform-independent, extensible serialized structural data format.

API in C++, Java and Python is currently available.

In the actual data processing, we need to use JSON to serialize the data, but also considering that the data of JSON is too large when it is transferred, and there are a lot of junk files that are not needed. We just took into account the features provided by Protocol Buffer.

Data serialization and deserialization

Serialization: the process of converting data structures or objects into binary strings.

Deserialization: the process of converting a binary string generated during serialization into a data structure or object.

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