Announcement for Sereal, a binary data serialization format, finally live!
It's been long in the making, but finally, I've gotten the Sereal announcement article in a shape that I felt somewhat comfortable with publishing. Designing and implementing Sereal was a true team effort and we really hope to see non-Perl implementations of it in the future. We're virtually committed to finish the Java decoder at least for our data-warehousing infrastructure. Any help and cooperation is welcome, as are patches to improve the actual text of the specification (which is kind of a weak point still).
By the way, for those who worried about the lack of a comment-system on the Booking.com dev blog before, we've added Disqus-support.
But now, I'm just glad it's out there!
Physicist turned software developer. Working on Infrastructure Development at Booking.com. Apparently the only person who thinks the perl internals aren't nearly as bad as people make them.
See also: the Booking.com tech blog, CPAN.
We will definitely try to use it, thanks!
I'm a bit sceptical about the benchmarks, as I found my own benchmarks also a bit flawed.
https://github.com/rurban/msgpack-perl/blob/master/t/26_roundtrips.t