By: Steffen Müller, Yves Orton, Damian Gryski, Chris Veenboer, Rafaël Garcia-Suarez, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason As with many things in computing, serialization of data structures is a game of trade-offs. There is an almost infinite number of desirable properties, but many of them are mutually exclusive. For this reason, at Booking.com, we have been using many different serialization technologies in d
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