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Go's new bindings for protocol buffers, Google's language-neutral data interchange format that aims to replace JSON for high-performance applications, aim to merge the protocol buffer type system ...

ASP.Net Web API is a lightweight framework used for building stateless and RESTful HTTP services. Protocol Buffers from Google is an extremely fast, language independent, platform-neutral, extensible ...

If you've ever wondered how Google manages to deal with all the information thrown at it in a given second, much less an hour or day, then listen up because we now know the answer: Protocol Buffers.