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This Atlassian blog post details the migration of Jira Cloud's Issue Service from JSON to Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) to enhance performance. The switch involved a phased approach to minimise downtime, creating new endpoints and logic to handle both formats concurrently before a complete transition. The results showcased significant improvements: 75% less Memcached CPU usage, 80% smaller data size, and a substantially faster response time. Challenges encountered included Protobuf's handling of null values and incompatibility with Spring's default error controller, which required workarounds…
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