Add Development section to README documenting use of Protobuf and tooling required. #6

README.md

@@ -21,6 +21,30 @@ For a more feature-complete Redis-compatible server, distributed key/value store
 * Low latecny
 * High throughput (See: [Performance](README.md#Performance)
 
+## Development
+
+1. Get the source:
+
+```#!bash
+$ git clone https://github.com/prologic/bitcask.git
+```
+
+2. Install required tools:
+
+This library uses [Protobuf](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf) to serialize data on disk. Please follow the
+instructions for installing `protobuf` on your system. You will also need the
+following Go libraries/tools to generate Go code from Protobuf defs:
+
+3. Build the project:
+
+```#!bash
+$ make
+```
+
+This will invoke `go generate` and `go build`.
+
+- [protoc-gen-go](https://github.com/golang/protobuf)
+
 ## Install
 
 ```#!bash