From Frustration to Language: The Birth of the...

"Why not just use Thrift? What about Protobuf?" These are the first questions we hear whenever we introduce DeukPack. And they're fair questions. Thrift and Protobuf are proven, battle-tested tools. We used them successfully for years. The problem was what started becoming visible only after we'd used them well. This is not an article about introducing a new IDL tool. It's an engineering story about how the friction we accumulated fighting with legacy tools solidified into a design philosophy—an