etcd switching to grpc makes complete sense. The author seems to have limited experience with the downsides of http long polling and all the implementation and operational complexities it comes with.
As a counter example of Xooglers making things more complicated, I wanted to bring forward the removal of the protobuf exposure format for prometheus 2.0 after it was discovered that it's actually more performant to parse prometheus' text format.
As a counter example of Xooglers making things more complicated, I wanted to bring forward the removal of the protobuf exposure format for prometheus 2.0 after it was discovered that it's actually more performant to parse prometheus' text format.