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.

Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster. The tool, ...

gRPC was originally developed by Google as an alternative to REST and other RPC protocols. It is designed to be faster and compact than the other protocols typically used in distributed computing.