Re:Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)
by blackflame7000 on Saturday August 17, 2019 @11:52PM
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Yes, in fact, this is most common in video streaming formats. These types of streams are more commonly downloaded as opposed to uploaded where the server has to be careful not to exhaust too many resources parsing variable-length messages.
These are also easier to recover the data from in case of corruption, or re-sync the receiver, since you have a control byte you can sync on.