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When dealing with interconnected systems it's a pretty decent format. That it is human readable also allows for relatively easy interaction in terms of the value without building one-off tooling.

When I'm dealing with non-sql data, one thing I've also done is fire the record into a service that compresses to .gz and a worker sends it to S3_PATH/data-type/recordid.json.gz as a recovery option. Not that it's the first or best recovery option, but when your core data is only a few hundred thousand records, potentially faster than a full DB restore. Not to mention, services being written in one language, and a recovery script in a scripting language.

It just depends on how you are doing things. Now, for configurations, I tend to prefer TOML or YAML.