title: Node.js and protocol buffers - I have a <SlowBuffer >? What is that?
body: <p>I am struggling understanding protocol buffers in node.js...</p>
  
  <p>I receive a message from a post.  I </p>
  
  <pre><code>var Schema = require('protobuf').Schema;
  var schema = new Schema(fs.readFileSync('/home/ubuntu/workspace/MySchmae.desc'));
  
  var Feed  = schema['MySchema'];
  var serialized = Feed.serialize(req.body);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The value of serialized is a .  I am assuming that this my object I want to parse.  There is a field called country.  I tried serialized.country but I get undefined.</p>
  
  <p>As a side..are the any good tutorials other than the non descript one pager form proto node?  </p>