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  <itunes:subtitle>What are protocol buffers? Why do we care? How do we use them, and what the heck is gRPC?!?!?</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;What are protocol buffers? Why do we care? How do we use them, and what the heck is gRPC?!?!?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Follow Us&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Frank: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/praeclarum" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://praeclarum.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://github.com/praeclarum" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;James: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="https://montemagno.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by &lt;a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Adventureface&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;⭐⭐ &lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/merge-conflict/id1133064277?mt=2&amp;amp;ls=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Review Us&lt;/a&gt; ⭐⭐&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Machine transcription available on &lt;a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;http://mergeconflict.fm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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    <![CDATA[<p>What are protocol buffers? Why do we care? How do we use them, and what the heck is gRPC?!?!?</p>

<h3>Follow Us</h3>

<ul>
<li>Frank: <a href="http://twitter.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="http://praeclarum.org" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>James: <a href="http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://montemagno.com" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>Merge Conflict: <a href="http://twitter.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" target="_blank">Website</a>, <a href="https://www.mergeconflict.fm/discord" target="_blank">Chat on Discord</a></li>
<li>Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface" target="_blank">Adventureface</a></li>
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<p>⭐⭐ <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/merge-conflict/id1133064277?mt=2&ls=1" rel="nofollow">Review Us</a> ⭐⭐</p>

<p>Machine transcription available on <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" rel="nofollow">http://mergeconflict.fm</a></p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.telerik.com/devcraft?utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_source=merge%20conflict&amp;utm_campaign=devcraft-awareness-merge-conflict">Telerik</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.telerik.com/devcraft?utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_source=merge%20conflict&amp;utm_campaign=devcraft-awareness-merge-conflict">Progress is the creator of the ultimate toolkit for building modern high-performant web, mobile, desktop apps and chatbots - Telerik DevCraft -  which includes .NET controls, Kendo UI JavaScript components, reporting, automated testing and productivity tools.</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm">Support Merge Conflict</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Protocol Buffers  |  Google Developers" rel="nofollow" href="https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/">Protocol Buffers &nbsp;|&nbsp; Google Developers</a></li><li><a title="BSON - Wikipedia" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSON">BSON - Wikipedia</a></li><li><a title="NuGet Gallery | protobuf-net 2.4.0" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/protobuf-net/">NuGet Gallery | protobuf-net 2.4.0</a></li><li><a title="protobuf-net/protobuf-net: Protocol Buffers library for idiomatic .NET" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/protobuf-net/protobuf-net">protobuf-net/protobuf-net: Protocol Buffers library for idiomatic .NET</a></li><li><a title="protocolbuffers/protobuf: Protocol Buffers - Google&#39;s data interchange format" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf">protocolbuffers/protobuf: Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>What are protocol buffers? Why do we care? How do we use them, and what the heck is gRPC?!?!?</p>

<h3>Follow Us</h3>

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<li>Frank: <a href="http://twitter.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="http://praeclarum.org" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>James: <a href="http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://montemagno.com" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>Merge Conflict: <a href="http://twitter.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" target="_blank">Website</a>, <a href="https://www.mergeconflict.fm/discord" target="_blank">Chat on Discord</a></li>
<li>Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface" target="_blank">Adventureface</a></li>
</ul>

<p>⭐⭐ <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/merge-conflict/id1133064277?mt=2&ls=1" rel="nofollow">Review Us</a> ⭐⭐</p>

<p>Machine transcription available on <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" rel="nofollow">http://mergeconflict.fm</a></p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.telerik.com/devcraft?utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_source=merge%20conflict&amp;utm_campaign=devcraft-awareness-merge-conflict">Telerik</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.telerik.com/devcraft?utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_source=merge%20conflict&amp;utm_campaign=devcraft-awareness-merge-conflict">Progress is the creator of the ultimate toolkit for building modern high-performant web, mobile, desktop apps and chatbots - Telerik DevCraft -  which includes .NET controls, Kendo UI JavaScript components, reporting, automated testing and productivity tools.</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm">Support Merge Conflict</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Protocol Buffers  |  Google Developers" rel="nofollow" href="https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/">Protocol Buffers &nbsp;|&nbsp; Google Developers</a></li><li><a title="BSON - Wikipedia" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSON">BSON - Wikipedia</a></li><li><a title="NuGet Gallery | protobuf-net 2.4.0" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/protobuf-net/">NuGet Gallery | protobuf-net 2.4.0</a></li><li><a title="protobuf-net/protobuf-net: Protocol Buffers library for idiomatic .NET" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/protobuf-net/protobuf-net">protobuf-net/protobuf-net: Protocol Buffers library for idiomatic .NET</a></li><li><a title="protocolbuffers/protobuf: Protocol Buffers - Google&#39;s data interchange format" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf">protocolbuffers/protobuf: Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format</a></li></ul>]]>
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