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| | In this post, we look at Protocol Buffers and JSON, and draw a comparison between the two, looking at different industry tests to draw our own conclusions.
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| | What a great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is! It covers databases and distributed systems in clear language, great detail and without any fluff. I particularly like that the author Martin Kleppmann knows the theory very well, but also seems to have a lot of practical experience of the types of systems he describes. There is...
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| | I posted YACYAML, the Cocoa YAML parser/object archiver I've been working on for a little while to GitHub today. It converts Cocoa objects to and from YAML, a plain text, human friendly data serialization format. YACYAML can be used in lots of ways - from replacing plists or JSON for simple config files, up to storing entire custom documents in an easy to view (and easy to hand-edit) format. Why have I made this? The short answer is that I like YAML. It's 'nicer' than plists and JSON to edit, and it's far, far, nicer to look at than NSKeyedArchiver's binary representation (which, to be fair, wasn't meant to be human-readable in the first place, but I think it would be good if it was).
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| The Model 3, starting at $35,000, is Tesla's attempt to bring an electric vehicle to the masses. Musk considers its voice-control features a big part of its appeal.