What are protocol buffers

In this talk, I would like to explain about protocol buffers, its applications as well as the encoding format. While I use protobufs at work, digging deep and understanding the encoding format was very interesting! Additionally, I will also explain the use of the tool `protoscope`.

Items that will be demonstrated -

- generating source files from proto files in Java

- notion of using optional and repeated

- decoding a message using protoscope