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[Protobuf] How Varint encoding works and the importance of field numbers
Protocol Buffers (protobufs) are a structured data serialisation format, developed by Google. protobufs serialise data more efficiently than XML or JSON, with smaller message sizes and faster parsing. Protobuf is a structured data serialisation format developed by Google.