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		Xorlev on June 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System It's just a saying. All we do is move protos from one service to another. JSON is definitely not the right stuff.

dmoy on June 8, 2019 [–]

The encoding/decoding cost is painful :(

I mean in this context if you're doing that level of scale. For a lot of purposes json is totally fine.

isatty on June 9, 2019 | [–]

It's really not - compared to the wire cost/static type checks and loads of other stuff you give up.

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