"Stop Serializing/Deserializing Messages. It boggles my mind why we still serialize and deserialize messages. Leave messages in a binary compressed format and decode only on access. Very few activities waste more CPU and cause more lock contention through the memory library than does serialization."

[citation needed]

I'm torn between upvoting the submission and flagging it... It's blogspam - linking to the "best post on latency." But then again, that is the best post on latency I've ever read.

The original link was on news.YC recently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=284413

Upvote the real link.

The original article, if anyone wants to resubmit: http://highscalability.com/latency-everywhere-and-it-costs-y...