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In Ignite 3.0 we want to avoid the cost of writing and supporting our own serialization mechanism.

Non-goals

Thin client protocol (handshake, message format, etc) will be designed in a separate IEP. Here we only discuss a mechanism to serialize user and system data: primitive and compound values, such as cache entries, configuration objects, and so on.

Description

Requirements

The goal is to find an existing serialization format that satisfies the following requirements:

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