https://engineering.facile.it/categories/messagepack/ Recent content in MessagePack on Facile.it Engineering Hugo en-us Tue, 25 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://engineering.facile.it/blog/eng/message-pack-an-alternative-to-json/ Tue, 25 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://engineering.facile.it/blog/eng/message-pack-an-alternative-to-json/ <p>When we talk about data interchange in web applications, <strong><a href="http://www.json.org/">JSON</a></strong> is the de-facto standard, especially in developing RESTful web services. JSON won against its antagonist <a href="https://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</a> (SOAP) without a battle, but it didn&rsquo;t prevent the development of alternatives like <a href="https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/">Google’s <strong>Protocol Buffers</strong></a>, <a href="https://avro.apache.org/">Apache <strong>Avro</strong></a> or <strong><a href="http://msgpack.org/">MessagePack</a></strong>. In being thorough, we should also mention <a href="http://www.gzip.org/">gzip</a> JSON compression (sometimes called &ldquo;<em>JSONC</em>&rdquo;), and <a href="http://bsonspec.org/">BSON</a>, a bin­ary-en­coded seri­al­iz­a­tion of JSON-like doc­u­ments, both derived directly from JSON. In this article we&rsquo;ll discuss MessagePack in depth.</p>