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Protobuf

Protobuf (Protocol Buffers) is a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams, using a variety of languages. Think of it as a more efficient and flexible alternative to XML or JSON.

Visit the following resources to learn more:

• @opensource@protobuf
• @article@Protocol Buffer Basics: C++