(if you can't comment on this, no worries. thanks)

  we translated protobuf messages to JSON

just curious- is this the same 'protojson' I see exchanged in the current crop of APIs?

aside, any opinions on others choosing that as a standard way of communicating between internal services on disparate runtimes? (golang<->python, for example)

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edit: offtopic, thanks for ShareJS.