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These text-file formats can all be used to store structured data for embedded and Web applications—but there are differences among them. What are JSON, XML, and YAML? Text-file formats that can be ...

When I started creating Web Services, I was using ADO.NET DataSets to retrieve data and then sending that data to my consumers using XML. Those Web Services are still there, but my consumers now want ...

The widespread use of ASCII encoding formats like JSON and rest may be killing server performance. A wide variety of emerging binary formats offer significantly improved performance for processing ...