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Re:Son: A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine comm... by wirrbel on Sunday December 10, 2017 @05:24PM (#15893815)
knowing the schema also means knowing the right revision of the schema. If you store messages for a while, this already can be a problem.
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Re:Son: A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine comm... by ithkuil on Monday December 11, 2017 @05:35AM (#15896206)
schemaless is never really schemaless: the code that accesses your data is implicitly assigning it a schema, so you'll have the same problem. FWIW, protobuf schemas are designed to be friendly for back and forward compatibility; unknown fields can be ignored and "required fields are generally considered harmful", interesting read: https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/2497
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