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, ...

An open-source protocol from Google that is used to encode and parse text-based XML data in a binary format. Using an interface description language (IDL) to define any XML structure, the XML is ...

It's a common problem in computer science: how do you get data from one part of your program to another part? What if the two parts were written by different people, at different times, in different ...