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"I've used this optimization technique to make app faster"

The app 20req/sec

The app after optimizations: 20req/sec (It waits for db query anyway)

Yes. Proto makes sense when the request rate is much higher and the network is constrained.

Otherwise, json is sufficient.

If it's the network that's constrained and not the CPU, gzipped JSON will often beat protobufs.