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JSON Compression: Alternative Binary Formats and Compression Methods

December 6, 2019 Richard Shurtz 7 Comments

TL;DR: If you are considering using an alternative binary format in order to reduce the size of your persisted JSON, consider this: the final compressed size of the data has very little to do with the serialization method, and almost everything to do with the compression method. In our testing,…

Why JSON isn’t a Good Configuration Language

July 16, 2018 Thayne McCombs 31 Comments

Why JSON isn’t a Good Configuration Language Many projects use JSON for configuration files. Perhaps the most obvious example is the package.json file used by npm and yarn, but there are many others, including CloudFormation (originally JSON only, but now supports YAML as well) and composer (PHP). However, JSON is…