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World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

JSON and Beyond

Douglas Crockford

Douglas Crockford asserts that JSON is incomplete for modern distributed systems. Discover why the creator of JSON is explicitly dropping 'null' in his new binary format, Nota.

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#1 about 2 min

Origins and design rules of the JSON format

JSON emerged as a minimalistic, text-based data interchange format to seamlessly connect Java servers with JavaScript clients.

#2 about 3 min

The decline of XML and the stability of JSON

Google Trends data highlights the continuous and steady adoption of JSON against the rapid functional decline of XML.

#3 about 3 min

Practical advice for designing future data formats

Future data standards should offer significant architectural improvements and maintain absolute stability to avoid creating an incompatibility tax.

#4 about 1 min

Designing the Misty actor-based distributed messaging system

The Misty project utilizes an actor-based architecture with a custom networking layer for securely executing distributed processes.

#5 about 4 min

Optimizing character encoding with Kim variable byte encoding

The Kim variable byte encoding provides a simpler, more memory-compact alternative to UTF-8 for specialized data applications.

#6 about 4 min

Structuring Nota as a binary data message format

Nota uses a JSON-like binary structure to strictly encode large binary objects and private process addresses efficiently.

#7 about 3 min

Encoding floating point numbers and symbols in Nota

Floating point values leverage scientific notation without decimal points to streamline numeric processing purely within integer space.

#8 about 3 min

Integrating Nota as a low-level message format in Misty

Nota functions as a specialized binary format for low-level network process messages while preserving JSON for external interoperability.

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