https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/kryo/ Recent content in Kryo on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-07-30-java-serialization-libraries-kryo-protobuf-avro-thrift/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-07-30-java-serialization-libraries-kryo-protobuf-avro-thrift/ <p>Serialization — converting objects to bytes and back — is fundamental to distributed systems. Every microservice that communicates over a network, every message queue that persists events, and every cache that stores objects must serialize data. Java&rsquo;s built-in <code>Serializable</code> interface has been the default for decades, but it is slow, verbose, and a well-known security vulnerability vector. The ecosystem has produced several high-performance alternatives.</p>