At a company that large and that diverse, the biggest gain in using protocol buf...

		randito on July 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LinkedIn adopts protocol buffers and reduces laten... At a company that large and that diverse, the biggest gain in using protocol buffers would be having an official schema and versioning for the messages. Serialization is nice (but not 60% improvement nice). But having some structure around messages is the big win.