protobuf: Protobuf (Google's data interchange format) protobuf: protobuf: Protocol buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) are Google's language-neutral, protobuf: platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured protobuf: data - think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how protobuf: you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special protobuf: generated source code to easily write and read your structured data protobuf: to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of protobuf: languages (C++, Java and Python). You can even update your data protobuf: structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled protobuf: against the "old" format. protobuf: Find out more about protobuf on the Google Developers site at protobuf: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ protobuf: protobuf: Packaged by Georgi D. Sotirov