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, ...

Based on HTTP/2 for transport, and a technology called Protocol Buffers for defining the data format, gRPC is designed to be a cross-platform protocol with support for multiple languages.

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.