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  8. protobuf: protobuf (Google's data interchange format)
  9. protobuf:
  10. protobuf: Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for
  11. protobuf: serializing structured data, think XML, but smaller, faster, and
  12. protobuf: simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once,
  13. protobuf: then you can use special generated source code to easily write and
  14. protobuf: read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams
  15. protobuf: and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data
  16. protobuf: structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled
  17. protobuf: against the "old" format.
  18. protobuf: