That is written to a file (or sent across a network connection). proto files), the code that the proto compiler generates to interface withĭata, language-specific runtime libraries, and the serialization format for data
Protocol buffers are a combination of the definition language (created in Of data streams and using a variety of languages. Source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety You want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated
Smaller and faster, and it generates native language bindings. Protocol Buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.