In many cases you do indeed want or need to use Protobuf for telemetry or other time-series data. The Protobuf RecordIO / TFRecord formats are very unhelpful f

In many cases you do indeed want or need to use Protobuf for telemetry or other time-series data. The Protobuf RecordIO / TFRecord formats are very unhelpful for this use case. Enter Protobag: https://github.com/StandardCyborg/protobag https://github.com/StandardCyborg/protobag Protobag is a library that helps you write and read time-series and other collections of Protobuf data using the standard Tar and Zip archives as containers. Protobag also includes code for leveraging self-describing messages to embed schemas in archives so that you never have data on disk that you can't read. Hope somebody finds Protobag helpful.