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API Development Quiz Practice
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API Development
Why does the topic describe protobuf's binary format as a real tradeoff rather than a strict improvement over JSON?
A
Because binary formats are always strictly worse
B
It provides genuine wire-efficiency and parsing-speed gains, but at the direct cost of losing JSON's human-readability, which has real operational/debugging implications
C
There is no real tradeoff, binary is strictly better in every dimension
D
JSON is always faster to parse than binary formats
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