MessagePack Try! Spec #msgpack MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it's faster and smaller. Small integers are encoded into a single byte, and typical short strings require only one extra byte in addition to the strings themselves. <p>Best for memcached, and network protocol aiming for performance and loosly-coupling.</p> MessagePack has new spec! See MessagePack update proposal v5 for the spec and migration plan. See github issue 128 for discussion. Redis scripting has support for MessagePack because it is a fast and compact serialization format with a simple to implement specification. I liked it so much that I implemented a MessagePack C extension for Lua just to include it into Redis. Salvatore Sanfilippo, creator of Redis Fluentd uses MessagePack for all internal ...