Reminds me of Thrift[1] which is an Apache foundation project started by Faceboo...

bellerocky on July 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Transit – A format for conveying values between di...

Reminds me of Thrift[1] which is an Apache foundation project started by Facebook and supports more languages. It also is battle tested. I've seen it used in production under heavy load. I don't know if Thrift does the caching or needs to. Data on the wire is already compressible via gzip which should handle repetitive values.

[1] https://thrift.apache.org/

lclarkmichalek on July 22, 2014 [–]

Thrift is non self describing, which seems to be incompatible with one of the aims of Transit (be self describing)