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Historically I have worked on many projects related to high-performance Protobuf, be that on the C++ runtime, on the Rust runtime, or on integrating UPB , the fastest Protobuf runtime, written by my colleague Josh Haberman . I generally don’t post directly about my current job, but my most recent toy-turned-product is…