Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is a powerful, compact, and lightning-fast data serialization format developed by Google.
Protobuf offers several advantages over JSON, including compactness, speed, schema evolution, and efficiency at scale.
JSON is still suitable for human-readable use cases and simple systems, while Protobuf excels in large-scale data exchange, low-bandwidth environments, and API schema evolution.
Whether to choose JSON or Protobuf depends on specific needs, but Protobuf is a solid choice for high-performance applications.