We’ve been planning on moving to a new messaging protocol for a while. We’ve looked at a lot of different solutions but had enough issues with every proposed solution to date that we haven’t made a decision. JR Boyens pointed us to Google’s announcement Protocol Buffers: Google’s Data Interchange Format in July. Glanced at it but then it got lost in the everyday noise. Recent work on a project caused it to get more attention. I like what I see.
As part of a new offering we decided to add in our new messaging direction. We’re processing realtime voice conversations. Some of our major considerations are:
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