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Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "protobuf" over time.
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "protobuf" over time.
Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is a free and open-source cross-platform data format used to serialize structured data. It is useful in developing programs that communicate with each other over a network or for storing data. The method involves an interface description language that describes the structure of some data and a program that generates source code from that description for generating or parsing a stream of bytes that represents the structured data. Read more on Wikipedia