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#protocol-buffer-and-grpc-beginners-guide Protocol buffer and gRPC: Beginners guide #intro Intro Rather, they are connected with each other through computer networks and communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another.

Accordring to Protocol buffer official doocumentation: Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler.

As for comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data-serialization_formats syntax = "proto3" // this defines which version of protocol buffer we use // the messages we send is defined with "message" // field type (int, string, boolean) // field name // field tag message myMessage { int32 id = string first_name = string last_name = }

syntax = "proto3" message Person { uint32 age = 1; string first_name = 2; string last_name = 3; bytes small_picture = bool profile_verified = float height = }