Buf
A new way of working with Protocol Buffers
Buf launched on October 19, 2019 with 87 votes, #418 of 3,363 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
What it does
Your organization should not have to reinvent the wheel to use Protobuf efficiently and effectively. Stop worrying about your Protobuf management strategy getting out of control. We'll handle that for you, so you can worry about what matters.
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Protobuf.com, a visual, interactive guide to Protocol BuffersAug 2026 · protobuf.com · ▲5Protobuf is a fairly simple format, but the way people are first introduced to it often doesn't speak to them. That is how it was for me at first. I tried to address that in two ways: simple visual diagrams where a picture does the work better than prose, and interaction so you can get a feel for the language and how it behaves without installing anything. Some parts of the guide run a real Protobuf compiler, bufbuild/protocompile, in the browser through WASM. It's the same compiler the buf CLI uses. Feedback welcome. Disclosure: I work at Buf, and Buf owns the domain. The guide started…
ProtoCURL, a curl for Protobuf2023 · github.com · ▲98protoCURL is cURL for Protobuf: The command-line tool for interacting with Protobuf over HTTP REST endpoints using human-readable text formats - qaware/protocurl
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ProtobufDecoder, Inspect Protobuf Messages2021 · github.com · ▲11A Google Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) payload decoder/analyzer - sandermvanvliet/ProtobufDecoder
Schemabuf – Generate a protobuf schema from a MySQL database schema2016 · github.com · ▲10Generate a protocol buffer schema from a MySQL database schema - mcos/schemabuf
- CCChunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs2022 · chunk.run · ▲96
Chunk co-founder here. We spent the last 2 weeks building this to scratch our own itch: As developers, we often have problems that could be solved just by running a few lines of code. Sometimes, running this code on your local machine is fine. But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server somewhere. So now, you have to find a cloud provider, to package or build the code and finally to deploy it. All of that for what could be literally be 4 lines of code. We couldn’t find an easier way to do…
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