Understanding Smile — A data format based on JSON
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3 min readFeb 10, 2019
JSON is widely used for transporting data over network because of its lightweight and human readable format. I don’t remember my first encounter with JSON but it has crossed my path quite frequently ever since I started working in tech industry. XML and JSON are quite extensively used to send/receive data from server, with latter being pre-dominant in recent years.
Recently I heard this term Smile, a JSON based data format, to send data onto a Kafka pipeline. In addition to the fact that this data format is efficient over JSON, it lives up to its cheerful name quite…
