Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs

kept by eddie dec 02, 25

The author argues that Protocol Buffers offer superior efficiency over JSON for APIs, despite trade-offs in human readability and complexity.

Fintech Engineering Handbook
The handbook catalogs patterns for representing, recording, and executing money movements—precision handling, double-entry ledgers, immutability, and invariants—to prevent data loss or invention in fintech systems.
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Do you even need a database?
The article argues that for many small-scale, read-heavy, or single-user applications, flat files like JSON can outperform a full DBMS, but warns that scaling or adding write concurrency will force you to rebuild a database.
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