Amazon Ion Specification

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  • ion-intellij-plugin

    Support for Ion in Intellij IDEA.

  • On the one hand, this seems more real than a lot of promotion-ware I've seen: https://github.com/amazon-ion/ion-intellij-plugin#readme

    On the other hand, they're not using this for the boto schemas, which seems like a natural place to show that it's able to capture real-world schemas so that makes it hard for me to think this has any traction

  • awesome-serialization

    Data formats useful for API, Big Data, ML, Graph & co

  • Why do you single out avro & not any of the hundreds of other ser/de systems?, Is that what you know or is there something specific about avro that makes it feel particularly similar? https://github.com/maximveksler/awesome-serialization

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  • partiql-lang-kotlin

    PartiQL libraries and tools in Kotlin.

  • Ion is heavily used on the retail side of Amazon, but it's only recently started to appear in AWS products.

    AWS is starting support PartiQL (https://partiql.org/) queries in some places and PartiQL uses Ion's type system internally.

  • cbor-java

    Java implementation of RFC 7049: Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)

  • What's the pros and cons of this versus CBOR, which we had great success with in our system.

    https://cbor.io

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