Thanks for mentioning this, I have never considered the mentioned alternative to xml/json for lack of needing to, but I did a quick search to understand a bit m

Thanks for mentioning this, I have never considered the mentioned alternative to xml/json for lack of needing to, but I did a quick search to understand a bit more and found this slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/IgorAnishchenko/pb-vs-thrift-vs-avro http://www.slideshare.net/IgorAnishchenko/pb-vs-thrift-vs-av.... This seems to be much more interesting than I anticipated. But I am left wondering what's the 'market' share for each.