"You wish to express data in a mechanism that can be expressed as a byte stream, and/or communicate that between systems that nay or may not be using different architectures, in a way that is efficient both computationally and in terms of bandwidth; and a platform independent tool to express the data format of such data"
This could include: - persisting state - for example to a file in a single application, or as a row blob in a nosql data store - an API between two systems - which could be two systems in the same org, or could be between two independent orgs Basically, the need to store and/or communicate data comes up **all the time**. It is one of the most common things you'll ever be doing in programming. If you're in the http+ajax/ws world, you might default to JSON - but even in that scenario there nay be benefits to more efficient transfer mechanisms (and note: protobuf does include a JSON layer too). But outside of http+ajax/ws, efficiency may be a much much higher incentive. That's what protobuf offers. The public google API *alone* consists of over 200 .proto schemas for various APIs. I use protobuf for storing data in red is, and for various file formats. On 21 Jun 2017 4:47 a.m., <exoticaru...@gmail.com> wrote: > Being a student, I need to know where we really use protobufs in. A > clearer picture is required. Also tell me how it can be applied in the > client - server communication cases. > Thank you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Protocol Buffers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
