Topic
To pickle or not to pickle
By: Joshua Herman
Date: June 11, 2025, 6 p.m.
We will go over the implications of how deciding a serialization format (also known as a data interchange format) can have on your performance, security and readability. We will study JSON, pickle and safetensors and understand the decision making and the specifications of those formats have and why you should choose one over the other. We will also show the implications of how others have used and when these formats while are a good idea before start to change in such a manner where you need to migrate to a format for the previous reasons mentioned (performance, security and readability). Also, at the end there will be a security demo derived from a blogpost.