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by kyzyl 3792 days ago
It might be that they consider it important to be able to interrogate the in-memory or on-disk representations without the help of a decoding step. Protobufs are great for getting objects into a nice compact format to throw on the wire, but god help you if you end up with multiple actors filling up a queue with inconsistently encoded objects.
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doesn't Apache Avro solve this problem?