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Serialization - different ways of storing data.
Text-based
Encode data as strings.
Pros are that it's human readable and widely supported. You can dump JSON without third-party libraries in most languages.
Cons are that it takes up much more space/bandwidth and that binary data must first be converted into base64 which can be slow.
Binary
- Protocol Buffers, also known as ProtoBuf, is a popular serialization library by Google.
- flatbuffers is another serialization library by Google meant for high performance.
- Cap'n Proto, a zero-encoding serialization library by a former ProtoBuf author.