Is Google's Protocol Buffers used in large scale production applications in production?
What is the experience using it?
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What do you mean by protocol buffers? Please add a little bit more information. – cschol Jan 11 '09 at 02:32
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i am referring to:http://eishay.blogspot.com/search/label/protobuf – leora Jan 11 '09 at 02:42
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I believe Marc Gravell and Jon Skeet (both at Google) are using them? – Mitch Wheat Jan 11 '09 at 02:46
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Can you please change the title to be a question. – Cameron MacFarland Jan 11 '09 at 02:47
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http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/tags/Protocol+Buffers/default.aspx – Mitch Wheat Jan 11 '09 at 02:48
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updated title to be a question – Mitch Wheat Jan 11 '09 at 02:49
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I think Jon Skeet was the primary developer of protocol buffers but I'm sure he'll be around to say something about it. :) – BobbyShaftoe Jan 11 '09 at 03:49
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2Google use it for lots of things internally – James Strachan Jan 12 '09 at 11:26
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For accuracy, Jon was *not* involved in the original protocol buffers creation; although he owns one (of several) C# ports. – Marc Gravell Mar 26 '09 at 08:35
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Just as a sidenote: Blizzard is using protobuf in the netproto of Diablo III which is pretty large scale and (besides some problems till now) it seems to work. – Luminger May 28 '12 at 21:51
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BTW Apache ActiveMQ 6 will probably be using Protocol Buffers as its default marshalling layer. Early experiences are very favourable; as its easy to have each endpoint on different versions and yet still be able to parse the binary protocol - plus it seems very fast. A great alternative to JSON/XML when you need a performance boost
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