I like compressed JSON idea. It opens up lots of other options.
"Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.od...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Perhaps configurable, then? XDR is a pain in the ass to debug. I was
>considering going with JSON or BSON initially.
>
>--dho
>
>2014/1/15 Dave Rawks <d...@pandora.com>:
>> On 01/15/2014 06:42 AM, Jesse Becker wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Nicholas Satterly
><nfsatte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> If we are to look at redoing the XML parsing next then the two
>contenders
>>>> that come to mind are gzipped JSON and Google Protocol Buffers.
>>>>
>>>> PB is meant to be very efficient and therefore faster, however it
>seems
>>>> people have gotten comparable results with gzipped JSON. An obvious
>>>> advantage of gzipped JSON is that it would be simple to make the
>output
>>>> human readable though we could easily develop a CLI tool that
>allowed us to
>>>> query and decode ganglia PB data for testing.
>>>
>>> I think there are large advantages to using standard and widely
>>> adopted formats, so JSON gets my vote there. That's not to say PB
>>> isn't widely used, but I suspect there are a lot more tools and
>>> programming language bindings to read and process JSON data.
>>>
>>> Or...why not just use XDR for bulk data transport, instead of
>>> introducing a third format (XML, XDR, and JSON/PB)? I'm not hugely
>>> familiar with XDR, so apologies if I'm missing an obvious reason why
>>> it wouldn't work here.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> +1 vote for XDR, it works great it is pretty damned efficient and the
>> code to use it is ubiquitous.
>>
>> -Dave
>>
>>
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