I skimmed the page and honestly wasn't getting what this did. So I looked up Thrift since it is supposedly similar, skimmed and still didn't understand. Same go

I skimmed the page and honestly wasn't getting what this did. So I looked up Thrift since it is supposedly similar, skimmed and still didn't understand. Same goes for Avro. Finally I looked into Protocol Buffers and bam, I pretty quickly understood what the hell this thing does for me and why I should care. Please, please, please, if you have an open source project give some examples of usage along with the corresponding code, it'll speed up adoption five fold. Here is ultimately what helped me understand the problem space: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/overview https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/overview