Introduction JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), Protocol Buffers (also known as Protobuf), and Avro are all data serialization formats commonly used to transmit data between systems. These formats allow you to define the structure of the data that needs to be
What is Data Serialization? Data serialization refers to the process of translating data structures or object state into a different format capable of being stored (such as a memory buffer or file), or transmitted and reconstructed at a different point.
Late last month, Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) introduced waflz, its new global CDN Web Application Firewall (WAF). A WAF acts as the first line of defense in network security by monitoring all incoming and outgoing network traffic, and deciding
Protocol buffers, also known as Protobuf, is a protocol that Google developed internally to enable serialization and deserialization of structured data between different services. Google’s design goal was to create a better method than XML to make systems communicate with
The main product of cybersecurity company Distil Networks is bot detection and mitigation. The San Francisco HQ’ed enterprise uses a range of detection mechanisms to detect bad bots – from heuristics deployed by its security team to automated systems that
