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I don't mean frontend but anything related to web services, really. "Lots of http transport stuff" is still "web programming" (for me, at least).

>Msgpack just doesn't seem, to me, as a really great fit for anything in particular.

Pinterest disagrees: http://engineering.pinterest.com/posts/2012/memcache-games/

To give you some context, frsyuki developed MessagePack originally for RPC (he was building a distributed key-value store in college) and made a conscious decision not to add a string type for maximal cross-language compatibility. Like a lot of other technology, MessagePack has outlived its original purpose, and there is a lot of demand now for it to support the (utf-8) string type, not just byte array.

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  >  "Lots of http transport stuff" is still "web programming" (for me, at least).

Web programming to me sounds like javascript and css. A the very least something to do with html output at some point. Oh well.

  > Pinterest disagrees: http://engineering.pinterest.com/posts/2012/memcache-games/

I didn't see any reference in that post to them trying compression. It would have been an interesting comparison.

Good data point on usefulness though. Thanks for that.

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