Ay my previous job we started out using simple StatsD messages that are a few bytes long, easy to implement, easy to debug, and quick. But then possibly due to

Ay my previous job we started out using simple StatsD messages that are a few bytes long, easy to implement, easy to debug, and quick. But then possibly due to a full-steam-ahead mandate of "everything should use protobuf (or was it thrift)?", we switched to a much heavier format, where clients needed a codegen'd binary implementation of the protocol, while making messages themselves much heavier.