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ses1984
11 days ago
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Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs
I feel like most high throughput distributed systems eventually reach a point where some part of it is constrained by de/serialization.
Not much is faster than protobuf except for zero copy formats.
kragen
11 days ago
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But zero-copy formats like FlatBuffers or Cap'n Proto can be
much
faster. Like, faster by an arbitrarily large factor, for data at rest.
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Not much is faster than protobuf except for zero copy formats.