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Out of curiosity, what sort of protocol are you using for RPC between services?

It's JSON over HTTP for the most part. We have a bit of legacy XML still knocking about and some services use message queues.

Other than JSON over HTTP you can also use something like https://github.com/lynaghk/zmq-async/ .

Will something stop me from using Protocol Buffers if I move to Clojure?