This application consist in a REST api with a single endpoint that consumes a JSON object and save its data into files using Google Protocol buffers, the data is rolled over every 24 hours at midnight ...

A simple example of the protocol buffers with java - java-protocol-buffers-example/README.md at master · Lazhari/java-protocol-buffers-example ...

Thanks to Kotlin's interop with Java, Kotlin programs could already work with Protocol Buffers by simply using the classes that the Protocol Buffers compiler is able to generate for the Java language.

Google released an FAQ detailing Protocol Buffers, along with source code for the Java, Python, and C++ protocol buffer compilers.

Protocol buffers are now Google's lingua franca for data – at time of writing, there are 48,162 different message types defined in the Google code tree across 12,183 .proto files.

Why did Google decide to go Open Source? "We have many other projects we would like to release as [O]pen [S]ource that use protocol buffers, so to do this, we needed to release protocol buffers first.

What does Protocol Buffers actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.