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May 22, 2025 · Fundamentals

Understanding Protobuf Encoding: Varints, ZigZag, Embedded Messages and Best Practices

This article explains Google Protocol Buffers' binary serialization, covering its advantages and drawbacks, the encoding mechanisms of tags, varints, ZigZag, embedded and repeated fields, and provides practical best‑practice guidelines for designing robust .proto schemas.

GoProtobufSerialization

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Understanding Protobuf Encoding: Varints, ZigZag, Embedded Messages and Best Practices

Java Backend Technology

Aug 8, 2018 · Backend Development

Designing Efficient RPC Message Protocols: Boundaries, Structures, and Compression

This article explains the core principles of RPC message protocol design, covering how to determine message boundaries, choose between delimiter and length‑prefix methods, handle explicit and implicit message structures, apply compression, and implement varint and zigzag encoding for optimal traffic efficiency.

Message ProtocolRPCSerialization

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Designing Efficient RPC Message Protocols: Boundaries, Structures, and Compression

Suishouji Tech Team

Mar 20, 2018 · Fundamentals

Why Protocol Buffers Outperform JSON and XML for Mobile Data Transfer

Protocol Buffers, Google’s cross‑platform serialization format, dramatically reduces payload size and speeds up transmission compared to JSON or XML by using compact binary encoding, Varint and ZigZag techniques, and offers powerful reflection mechanisms illustrated with Objective‑C examples and detailed code snippets.

VarintZigzagbinary encoding

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Why Protocol Buffers Outperform JSON and XML for Mobile Data Transfer