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One reason on top of my head: Using such communication protocol would require changes to the other services consuming it.
by hrshtr 9y ago
One reason on top of my head: Using such communication protocol would require changes to the other services consuming it.
- rst 9y agoSo did switching to their homebrew serialization format -- in fact, most of the article is about how they managed the changes (which touched codebases at multiple sites in a fairly large organization).
- jnewhouse 9y agoThose switches all occurred at the pipeline level, leaving the map-reduce platform untouched. Switching our base logs to something like Parquet, Thrift or Protobuf would be a much larger project. We do support writing and reading Parquet to allow us to interface with other big data systems.