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"Alex ... [realizes] that someone added an extra field in each line"

Someone?!? Who's touching the server configuration and why? Unless Alex put a publicly accessible web interface on his .conf files, this shouldn't be happening.

Back on topic. The increase in size for logging in JSON could easily be a deal breaker.

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OT, but I really like the way you expressed this: "could easily be a deal breaker". Too many comments on HN instead say "This would never work because of the increase in size" instead. Your comment recognizes the nuance without getting bogged down in what-ifs and disclaimers. Very well put.

Maybe Joe or Tina the other developers. Or maybe it was Mark or Cheryl from systems.

That said, in my experience, this doesn't end up being a common issue because people do the sensible thing and add the new field to the end of the file, so your tools just continue to work.

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