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Until you run into things like "your partners deploy once every two months" or "the team's deploy is delayed by X due to unforseen changes downstream" or ...

Protobuf is built specifically for Google and Google's way of doing things. Not everyone is built like Google.

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Well, the core problem is that you shouldn't be deploying as infrequently as every 2 months...you should spend engineering energy to fix that rather than on working around it.

Must be nice not to have to live in the real world.

Deploying every two months is not required to live in the real world.

Customers who expect interface stability for 12+ months is the real world.

You can deploy a service with a stable interface frequently...

Yep, well said.

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