Protocol Buffers are Google’s fast and simple, language- and platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. It allows you to define how your data should be structured once, and then using a special generated source code, you can then easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. Protocol Buffers currently supports a wide array of languages, including C++, Java, Python, Ruby, and many others with more...