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Here's a blog post about Cloudflare's use of Cap'n Proto in 2014, three years before I joined: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-lua-capnproto-better...

To this day, Cloudflare's data pipeline (which produces logs and analytics from the edge) is largely based on Cap'n Proto serialization. I haven't personally been much involved with that project.

As for Cloudflare Workers, of course, I started the project, so I used my stuff. Probably not the justification you're looking for. :)

That said, I would argue the extreme expressiveness of Cap'n Proto's RPC protocol compared to alternatives has been a big help in implementing sandboxing in the Workers Runtime, as well as distributed systems features like Durable Objects. https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-durable-obje...



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