High Performance JSON Serialization in C# 11 / .NET 7.0

2nd October 2023 · 87 min watch

By Ian Griffiths Technical Fellow I

Explore modern C# features for efficient JSON parsing & generation, using code generators and balancing performance with ease of use in .NET apps.

About this talk

JetBrains .NET Day Online 2023

In this talk, you will see how features added to recent versions of C# can dramatically improve parsing and generation of JSON data compared with longer-established .NET JSON handling mechanisms. You will see how to use high-performance memory-efficient techniques, and also how code generators can reduce runtime overheads. This talk will explore the trade-off between maximizing performance and ease of use and will show you how to choose between the various options now available in modern .NET applications.

About the presenter

Ian Griffiths

Ian has worked across an extraordinary breadth of computing - from embedded real-time systems and broadcast television to medical imaging and cloud-scale architectures. As Technical Fellow at endjin, he brings this deep cross-domain experience to bear on the hardest technical problems.

A 17-time Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, Ian is the author of O'Reilly's Programming C# 12.0 and one of the foremost authorities on the C# language and high-performance .NET development. He's a maintainer of Reactive Extensions for .NET, Reaqtor, and endjin's 50+ open source projects.

Ian has created Pluralsight courses on WPF fundamentals, WPF advanced topics, WPF v4, and the TPL, and has given over 20 talks at conferences worldwide. Technology brings him joy.