> Honestly, gzipped json is likely much smaller than uncompressed protobuf. Likely not. See here for a comparison: https://nilsmagnus.github.io/post/proto-json

> Honestly, gzipped json is likely much smaller than uncompressed protobuf. Likely not. See here for a comparison: https://nilsmagnus.github.io/post/proto-json-sizes/ https://nilsmagnus.github.io/post/proto-json-sizes/ Btw, binary formats can also be compressed though it typically won't yield the same compression ratio as similar json would since there will be less repeation in the binary format.