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by SillyUsername 1284 days ago
Holy cow.

If somebody asked me to support this format after you'd left the company I'd quit on the spot. This frankenformat is 100% premature optimization, non standardised, requires custom parsers (which are potentially inefficient and may negate the network performance from having to parse both json and csv) and is potentially very difficult to maintain and debug (no syntax highlighters or rest like posting tools)

Just either use GRPC or JSON with regular network level gzip encoding.