On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:00 -0700, Paul Brown wrote: > At the risk of asking about religion (but with no interest in hearing > about it), why Avro instead of something like plain-old-JSON over > HTTP?
At the risk of having this thread veer off on a very long tangent... In a nutshell, we need a way of processing requests and responses over the network with typed data. You could of course put something together to do this using JSON and HTTP, but not without reimplementing another framework like Avro or Thrift (both of which can do JSON encoding, and both of which have an HTTP transport). -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com
