In Depth Talk on Performance and Serialization (Protobuf, json, Thrift, etc.)

Direct link to slides: <a href="http://qconsf.com/dl/qcon-sanfran-2011/slides/SastryMalladi_DealingWithPerformanceChallengesOptimizedSerializationTechniques.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://qconsf.com/dl/qcon-sanfran-2011/slides/SastryMalladi_...</a>

I didn't see anything in the slides about compressing (gzip) any of the non-binary formats (json, xml, etc). It would be interesting to see those in a comparison like this too.<p>Also would have been neat to see tnetstrings &#60;or insert favorite format here&#62;. ;)

I seriously wonder how it's possible that in his tests JSON got smaller than MsgPack.<p>MsgPack is so close to JSON in structure, but very compact (1 byte type header, small numbers type and payload combined) it doesn't make any sense.

I recommend that anyone interested in this topic look closely at the raw data provided in the deck on slides 38-41.