We're unifying our internal tRPC API and public REST API into a single ConnectRPC service. Here's how we're doing it—and how AI is accelerating the migration.

Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, production-grade LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or...

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After two years of development, we're proud to announce that Protovalidate has reached v1.0. Protovalidate is the semantic validation library for Protobuf. Protobuf gives you the structure of your dat...

This hands-on guide from O’Reilly Media focuses on critical data engineering design patterns, including data ingestion, data quality, and idempotency.

Stanislav Kozlovski's deep dive into the Kafka creation story appeared last weekend. It detailed how LinkedIn solved data problems with Kafka and also revealed three remaining challenges—schema evolut...

Our interactive workshop is the best way to learn the ins and outs of our centralized registry for tracking and evolving Protobuf APIs.

Today we’re announcing public availability of hyperpb, a fully-dynamic Protobuf parser that is 10x faster than dynamicpb, the standard Go solution for dynamic Protobuf. In fact, it’s so efficient that...

Our interactive workshop is the best way to learn the ins and outs of Bufstream, our Kafka-compatible, schema-first streaming data platform.

Why Schema-Driven Streaming is the Future of Kafka Anyone who’s managed Kafka at scale knows the pain: -> Managing multiple clusters -> Dealing with frequent schema mismatches -> Wasting ...

Our interactive workshop is the best way to learn the ins and outs of Bufstream, our Kafka-compatible, schema-first streaming data platform.

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The first 15 field numbers are special: most runtimes will decode them much faster than the other field numbers. When designing a message type for decoding performance, it’s good to use these field nu...

Instead of using oneofs, you can now use the new (buf.validate.message).oneof Protovalidate annotation. As long as you're validating your messages with Protovalidate, (buf.validate.message).oneof does...

We’re announcing a major step toward our vision of a single schema definition in Protobuf that governs your entire data flow — from API contracts to streaming topics to analytical tables. Bufstream no...

Don’t use 'required' to modify fields—you won’t be able to get rid of it later when you realize it was a bad idea.

buf convert and protoscope are powerful tools for examining and debugging wire format dumps.

Our interactive workshop is the best way to learn the ins and outs of Bufstream, our Kafka-compatible, schema-first streaming data platform.

Enum values are a poorly designed feature and shouldn’t be used.

We're excited to announce that Bufstream is now available on the AWS Marketplace. Enterprise customers can purchase through their AWS account and accelerate their deployment of Bufstream.

Our interactive workshop is the best way to learn the ins and outs of Bufstream, our Kafka-compatible, schema-first streaming data platform.

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If you're looking for a modern drop-in replacement for Apache Kafka to save costs and complexity, Bufstream is probably your best bet. However, we've got a bigger mission here. Buf wants to bring sche...

Bufstream — Buf’s drop-in replacement for Apache Kafka® — now supports business-critical workloads with multi-region, active-active clusters on GCP.

At less than $1M/month for 100 GiB/s of writes and 300 GiB/s of reads, Bufstream using Spanner is 25x cheaper than Confluent Cloud, 1.5x cheaper than WarpStream, and 3x cheaper than self-hosted Apache...

We're proud to announce the results of Bufstream's official Jepsen testing: a clean bill of health, validating that Bufstream maintains consistency even in the face of cascading infrastructure failure...