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Everything at google is built on RPCs between systems using protobufs

• ma2rten 5y ago
  Protobuf is also used as a format to write data to disk.
  • alephnan 5y ago
    Why is this being down voted? It's accurate.
• TheReveller 5y ago
  Also extensively for database column data types.
• randomswede 5y ago
  And one of the more important things done at the very beginning of each and every HTTP(S) request is packaging the web request up in a protobuf and send it onwards from the loadbalancer.
  • barbazoo 5y ago
    So downstream from the LB it's no longer HTTP? Or is every component just protobuf "aware"?
    • h43k3r 5y ago
      Yes