{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Programming Tech Brief By HackerNoon","title":"JSON Was Killing Our Redis Memory. Switching Serialization Made It 7× Smaller.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/b4ec50b4\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":369,"description":"\n        This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/json-was-killing-our-redis-memory-switching-serialization-made-it-7-smaller.\nCut Redis memory usage by 7× by ditching JSON for Pydantic models. Learn how a custom binary format reduced storage, costs, and overhead at scale.\nCheck more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming.\n            You can also check exclusive content about #python, #pydantic, #object-serialization, #redis-memory, #pybyntic, #protobuf, #messagepack, #hackernoon-top-story,  and more.\nThis story was written by: @yankhachko. Learn more about this writer by checking @yankhachko's about page,\n            and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\nRedis was running a large production service with about **10 million monthly active users**. Every record in Redis was a **JSON-serialized Pydantic model** It looked clean and convenient – until it started to hurt. At scale, JSON stops being a harmless convenience and becomes a silent tax on memory.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/KhCapPSRkLGL2Xw8888yuChkNRWthaKapLYTvNdu4W4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxMTY2LzE2ODM1/ODIzMzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}