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by cm3 3716 days ago
A question for frontend devs: Will H2 being binary on the wire inspire more use of binary data representations as well, with conversion to JSON only on the client? Passing around JSON or XML across a big SOA (or micro-services) architecture is a waste of cycles and doesn't have types attached for reliability and security.
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voltagex_ 3716 days ago
Do you mean passing around binary between backend services and then having a binary->JSON "proxy" behind whatever is receiving AJAX requests from the client?
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cm3 3716 days ago
My idea was that the client (HTML+JS) will transform the binary data into JSON or skip the conversion and process it directly. Seeing how fast JS engines have become and the amount of typed binary arrays processed in JavaScript, I believe it's a viable approach. But I'm not a frontend dev, so I can't be certain.
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kevinSuttle 3712 days ago
Sounds a lot like the ActionScript compiler, which compiled their EcmaScript-style scripting language into bytecode for the Flash runtime.
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