Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack - igvita.comBy Ilya Grigorik on August 01, 2011 Perhaps one of the first inescapable observations that a new Google developer (Noogler) makes once they dive into the code is that Protocol Buffers (PB) is the "language of data" at Google. Put simply, Protocol Buffers are used for serialization, RPC, and about everything in between. Initially developed in early 2000's as an optimized server request/response pro
