[Pycon] [new paper] "Francesco Della Vedova" - Beyond XML: fast communication with Protocol Buffers

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Title: Beyond XML: fast communication with Protocol Buffers
Duration: 45 (includes Q&A)
Q&A Session: 15
Language: en
Type: Talk

Abstract: Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data. They are used everywhere inside Google for communicating between hundreds of independent services. 
There are many advantages for using Protocol Buffers over JSON or XML, for example:
-  Type enforcement;
-  3 to 10 times smaller and 20 to 100 times faster;
 - Always backward compatible when the schema evolves;
 - They generate data access classes that are easier to use programmatically

In this talk we'll introduce the usage of Protocol Buffers in Python, and how to use them to build a simple service.

Tags: [u'Python', u'Evolution of APIs', u'distributed-systems', u'Python', u'Python']