emerging · 0.0 capability schema

Protobuf

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Providers using this tag (12)

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Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Unrated 1 Not yet scored

APIs with this tag (30)

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Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Tailor Platform Operator APIThe Tailor Platform control plane. A single tailor.v1.OperatorService with 254 RPCs covering organizations,...53.0bitdrift Public APIThe bitdrift Capture public API — schema-first protobuf service definitions exposed over gRPC, Connect, and...51.5Antimetal Agent APIs (Protobuf)Public protobuf/Connect definitions for the Antimetal system agent — the component that connects customer i...49.9Picarro Edge — SAM FOUP gRPC APIThe first-party gRPC/ProtoBuf interface Picarro publishes for external access to Picarro SAM (semiconductor...49.1Picarro Platform Server APIThe gRPC interface to the host computer underneath a Picarro SAM deployment. `platformserver` exposes NetCo...49.1Gloo Mesh EnterpriseGloo Mesh Enterprise (documented as "Gloo Mesh (Gloo Platform APIs)", current version 2.14, released 2026-0...48.9LinQ Wallet Public APIgRPC / Protocol Buffers API for integrating a game with LinQ Wallet services. Covers geo restriction checks...45.0KurrentDB gRPC APIThe primary protocol for KurrentDB. The published protocol buffer definitions cover the v2 streams service ...44.3Envoy API V3The Envoy API v3 is the current stable protobuf-based configuration and extension API for Envoy proxy. It d...44.0Sui gRPC APIThe Sui full-node gRPC API (Protobuf, sui.rpc.v2) exposing LedgerService, StateService, TransactionExecutio...42.7Analog Devices 3D Time-of-Flight SDKThe ADI 3D Time-of-Flight SDK (libaditof, and the ADCAM application layer built on it) drives ADI depth cam...42.5Sora APIgRPC service for collecting, storing and analysing device location time series. DeviceService (5 RPCs) take...40.2
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Unrated 1 Not yet scored

Companies reaching this through an API (27)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Protobuf” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Akka Analog Devices Antimetal API Linting API Specifications Apicurio bitdrift Bitquery Code Confluent | the Data Streaming Platform Envoy Helium Network Kurrent Linq.gg LiveKit Mysten Labs Picarro Proemion Qlik Sense APIs Redpanda RegScale Retrofit Rubicon Project Sift Stack Sozu Swift Navigation Tailor

Score breakdown

Frequency
43.6
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
41.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
13.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Schema Registry 6 co-occurrences gRPC 22 co-occurrences Avro 5 co-occurrences JSON-Schema 6 co-occurrences AsyncAPI 6 co-occurrences Streaming 7 co-occurrences Cloud 5 co-occurrences SDK 6 co-occurrences

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