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by travisd 1659 days ago
Their whole thing is tooling around protocol buffers, not the data format itself. The format is completely open source and comes from Google.
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Protobuf is not even all that good as a format, flatbuffers has generally better properties.
My impression is flatbuffers takes more cpu caused it doesn’t transform the binary payload (it’s use case)