A cross-platform framework for working with schematized data, now archived as of March 2025.
Bond was a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data, providing tools for serialization, deserialization, and code generation across multiple programming languages. It solved the problem of efficient data interchange in distributed systems by enabling type-safe data modeling and schema evolution. The project has been archived as of March 2025 and is no longer actively maintained.
Developers building distributed systems, microservices, or applications requiring efficient cross-language data interchange with schema evolution capabilities.
Bond offered high-performance binary serialization protocols, strong cross-platform support, and robust schema evolution features, making it a compelling alternative to similar serialization frameworks with its focus on performance and compatibility.
Bond was a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. The open-source project ended on March 31, 2025.
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Offers multiple binary protocols (compact, fast, simple) optimized for performance and wire size, as detailed in the protocol header files like compact_binary.h.
Generates type-safe code for C++, C#, Java, and Python from a single schema definition, enabling consistent data modeling across different programming languages.
Supports forward and backward compatibility for independent evolution of data producers and consumers, which is critical for distributed systems and microservices.
The project has ended as of March 2025 with no further features, bug fixes, or security patches, making it risky for deployment in new or evolving systems.
Microsoft no longer provides general support, and third-party implementations are unsupported, leading to fragmentation and lack of integration with modern tools.
Documentation is frozen and community channels like StackOverflow are no longer monitored, reducing access to up-to-date help and best practices.
Bond is an open-source alternative to the following products:
Protocol Buffers (protobuf) is a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data, developed by Google for efficient data interchange.
Apache Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development, combining a software stack with a code generation engine to build efficient services.