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JavaScript and JSON Essentials

You're reading from   JavaScript and JSON Essentials Build light weight, scalable, and faster web applications with the power of JSON

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788624701
Length 226 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sai S Sriparasa Sai S Sriparasa
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Bruno Joseph D'mello Bruno Joseph D'mello
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Preface 1. Getting Started with JSON 2. The JSON Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. AJAX Requests with JSON 4. Cross-Domain Asynchronous Requests 5. Debugging JSON 6. Building the Carousel Application 7. Alternate Implementations of JSON 8. Introduction to hapi.js 9. Storing JSON Documents in MongoDB 10. Configuring the Task Runner Using JSON 11. JSON for Real-Time and Distributed Data 12. Case Studies in JSON 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Better compressions with messagePack

There is one more data exchange format which is more space efficient than all those that we've covered so far. It provides binary serialization and is designed for fast in-memory manipulations. Many renowned sites, such as Pinterest, use messagePack for the compression of data.

Consider a scenario where we have to cache some data in primary cache storage, such as redis. In such a case, everytime a developer needs to store data—which can be JSON, an array, or any other data type—into a single string associated with a key (as in redis, where the data store is key-value pair with single-level depth), the memory utilization increases relative to the data inserted. messagePack can help to reduce the memory utilization. If we encode data using messagePack, it results in around 40% lossless compression. Isn't that better?

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