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"Plain JSON" encoding for Apache AvroPermalink

Also available here. JIRA-3986. Illustrating Avro project PR for C#. The Apache Avro project defines a JSON Encoding, which is optimized for encoding data in JSON, but primarily aimed at exchanging data between implementations of the Apache Avro specification. The choices made ...

11/10/2024Permalink

#Looking forward to the next season of Andor:   🔗#Reply in a Reddit thread on legitimate uses of returning 'object' in C##🔗 ...

A semantic identifier for occurrences: CloudEvent "type" Permalink

In today's xRegistry WG Friday meeting we had a debate about the relationship between the message identifier (messageid) that uniquely identifies a metadata template for a CloudEvent (if that is the chosen envelope format) and the CloudEvent type attribute. In the message ...

Excrement on the platformPermalink

I took the light rail from Santa Clara into San Jose downtown yesterday evening. This is Silicon Valley. One of the world's virtual gold mines. There was human excrement on the train platform. Homeless people all over St. James Park and more in store front entrances. Folks are ...

11/8/2024Permalink

#Sitting in the bar area at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara it seemed like every other song that was playing was from Dua Lipa‘s Radical Optimism album. Apparently she made it here. Love it. She’s cool.#San Jose downtown looks very run down these days. Lots of empty store ...

BodennebelPermalink

Yesterday I complained about Deutsche Bahn being notoriously delayed. Today, Karma caught up and Deutsche Flugsicherung (German Air Traffic Control) held my flight LH075 from Düsseldorf to Frankfurt on the ground for 1 hour due to dense fog in Frankfurt, which affected all ...