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Have you ever wondered how some writers manage to keep readers hooked week after week with serialized stories that feel fresh, engaging, and carefully planned? Serialized storytelling is a unique art ...

Serialization is the process of saving an object’s state to a sequence of bytes; deserialization is the process of rebuilding those bytes into a live object. The Java Serialization API provides a ...

Amazon is trying to capitalize on the growing market for serialized fiction. The company today launched Kindle Vella, a mobile-first platform that lets readers buy stories in episodic chunks. Despite ...

Last month, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, said during a conference Q&A that one of Oracle's long-term goals is to change the way Java handles object serialization. In fact, he called the ...

Liam Hemsworth stars in this generic action thriller about a man who agrees to be hunted for sport in exchange for a massive payout. Quibi’s serialized format does nothing to help its boring ...

Java’s Serializable interface provides an easy-to-use programming interface for converting between a runtime object and a byte stream. Serialization involves mapping a runtime object or an object ...