Introduction to protocol buffer. https://github.com/RiteshAgrawal/protobuf-demo

1. Data Serialisation using
Protocol Buffers
BangPypers Jan 2021 Meetup

2. $ whoami
Ritesh Agrawal
Software Architect at Cyware

3. Introduction to Serialization
● Serialisation is the process of translating a data structure or object state into a
format that can be stored or transmitted (over the network) and reconstructed
later. (Wikipedia)
??? Any example of serialization

4. Few Methods of Serialization
● Language Specific (pickle module for Python) (Demo)
● JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
● Protocol Buffers

5. Security Concerns

6. Introduction to Protocol Buffers
● Developed at Google (internal: 2001, public: 2008)
● Platform Independent
● Language Independent
● Non Human Readable

7. Components
● Proto definition file (.proto)
● Proto Compiler

8. Demo

9. Thanks