September 17, 2026Team Buf
ProtobufA faster Protovalidate
Go, Java, and TypeScript now run Protovalidate's standard rules as native code, while protovalidate-py 2.0 replaces its pure-Python core with a much faster native extension.
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RSS feedSeptember 11, 2026Kevin McDonald
ProtobufDelta Encoding in Protobuf
Deep dive into a space-saving encoding technique.
September 2, 2026Kevin McDonald
ConnectgRPC-Web Failed the Web
Why gRPC-Web made the browser a second-class client, the protocol compromises that followed, and what a web-native RPC protocol looks like instead.
August 26, 2026Kevin McDonald
Connectconnect-rust joins the Connect project
Anthropic built connect-rust and has contributed it to the Connect project. Rust now has an official implementation that speaks Connect, gRPC, and gRPC-Web.
August 24, 2026Kevin McDonald
Buf CLI · Buf Schema Registry · ProtobufThe modern Protobuf workflow
A tour of the modern Protobuf workflow, from compatibility and code generation to RPC, validation, and editor tooling, and how each piece builds on the same schema.
August 14, 2026Kevin McDonald
ProtobufProtobuf-ES just got a lot faster
Protobuf-ES v2.14 serializes up to 5x faster and parses up to 2x faster, with no API changes and no new build options. Update the package and your code gets faster.
August 10, 2026Kevin McDonald
ProtobufProtobuf Tip #10: Choosing the right integer type
Protobuf has ten integer types. Use int64. In Go, even the slow cases decode a thousand integers in a few microseconds, so the choice almost never matters.
July 7, 2026Team Buf
Protobufprotobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises
We're announcing protobuf-py, a complete, 100% conformant Protobuf runtime for Python that feels like Python and matches the performance of Google's C engine on real workloads.
May 8, 2026Team Buf
CoreWeave Acquires Bufstream
Today, we are pleased to share that CoreWeave has acquired Bufstream, our Apache Kafka-compatible streaming platform, from Buf. CoreWeave, a leading AI cloud, has added Bufstream to its internal platform as part of the W&B Models and Weave product lines.
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