Building a maintainable bi-directional cross platform protocol
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Claim: a single IDL plus generated data classes and a lightweight protocol wrapper deliver a maintainable, versioned, bi‑directional RPC across web and native clients. Implementation: Google Protocol Buffers as the IDL, JSON on the browser, auto‑generated language bindings and a custom two-way RPC layer. Result: deployed at Badoo for 200 million users, removes duplicate API boilerplate, supports evolving fields by number and works well enough in practice for cross‑platform feature delivery.
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