Protocol Buffers
Providers using this tag (16)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
APIs with this tag (21)
Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →
Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Agent Directory (DIR)Distributed announce and discovery of multi-agent systems. gRPC-first, with services for storage (content-a...gRPC Core FrameworkThe gRPC core framework defines the RPC protocol, service definition format using Protocol Buffers, and the...Protocol Buffers Service Definition SchemaJSON Schema for Protocol Buffers service definition format (.proto files). Describes the structure of gRPC ...OpenSCOW / CraneSched research-computing APIsOpenSCOW ("Super Computing On Web") is an HPC portal and management system authored at Peking University; C...AimDK Protocol (Link-U OS Robot Interface)The AimDK protocol is AgiBot's first-party Protocol Buffers definition of its robots' interfaces, published...Cerbos PDP gRPC APIThe Cerbos PDP gRPC API exposes the cerbos.svc.v1.CerbosService and related management services on port 359...
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Prometheus Remote WriteRemote Write is Prometheus' push protocol for shipping scraped samples to long-term storage and analysis ba...BandChain gRPC APIThe BandChain gRPC API provides high-performance protocol buffer access to BandChain nodes for querying ora...gRPC Reflection APIgRPC server reflection provides information about publicly-accessible gRPC services on a server, enabling d...TypeSpec Protobuf EmitterEmits Protocol Buffer `.proto` files from TypeSpec service definitions, enabling gRPC service generation fr...Vert.x gRPCA Vert.x-native gRPC implementation providing a reactive, non-blocking gRPC client and server built on top ...KratosKratos is a Go framework for building cloud-native microservices, originally created at Bilibili. It provid...Protocol BuffersProtocol Buffers (Protobuf) is Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serial...Riak Protocol Buffers Client APIHigher-performance binary client API for Riak KV using Protocol Buffers messages encoded over a long-lived ...
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
KitexKitex is a high-performance, extensible RPC framework for building microservices in Go, developed by ByteDa...Apache SkyWalking gRPC Data Collect ProtocolThe SkyWalking data collection protocol defines gRPC service definitions for telemetry data ingestion from ...gRPC and Protocol BuffersgRPC is a high-performance RPC framework using HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) as its IDL and wire f...Twirp RPC FrameworkTwirp is a simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions. Define your service in a .proto file and...
Companies reaching this through an API (10)
These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Protocol Buffers” 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.
Apache SkyWalking
API Specifications
Band Protocol
Cerbos
ClickHouse
Peking University
Prometheus
Riak KV
Scalable Services
Vert.x
Score breakdown
Frequency
42.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
37.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
11.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor
Related tags
gRPC 18 co-occurrences
RPC 6 co-occurrences
Code Generation 5 co-occurrences
HTTP 6 co-occurrences
Microservices 5 co-occurrences
Observability 8 co-occurrences
Streaming 8 co-occurrences
Open-Source 13 co-occurrences
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Api tag22
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