⚡ B-FAST v1.1.0 - Extended Type Support & Performance Optimizations

🚀 Features

Extended Type Support

• ✅ datetime, date, time
• ✅ UUID
• ✅ Decimal
• ✅ Enum (string and int)
• ✅ tuple, set, frozenset
• ✅ bytes, bytearray
• ✅ Type preservation with special tags

Performance Optimizations

• ✅ Memory allocation improvements
• ✅ Optimized type checking
• ✅ Buffer pre-allocation
• ✅ Recursion depth protection
• ✅ Parallel compression

📊 Performance Results

• Simple objects: 1.7x faster than orjson
• 100 Mbps network: 5.7x faster than orjson (round-trip)
• NumPy arrays: 14x faster than orjson
• Compression: 89% payload reduction

📚 Documentation

• ✅ Translated README to English
• ✅ Added philosophy and project message
• ✅ Updated all benchmarks
• ✅ Fixed multilingual docs structure
• ✅ Added "Recommended" badge to FastAPI integration
• ✅ Added uv installation option

🧪 Tests

• ✅ 25/25 tests passing
• ✅ Full coverage for extended types
• ✅ Integration tests for type preservation

🔧 Code Quality

• ✅ Formatted with black and cargo fmt
• ✅ Linted with ruff
• ✅ Zero warnings

📦 Installation

# Python
pip install bfast-py==1.1.0
# or
uv add bfast-py

# TypeScript
npm install bfast-client@1.1.0

🔗 Links

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/bfast-py/1.1.0/
• NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/bfast-client/v/1.1.0
• Documentation: https://marcelomarkus.github.io/b-fast/

🌐 B-FAST v1.0.7 - Multilingual Documentation

🌐 Multilingual Documentation Release

B-FAST v1.0.7 introduces comprehensive multilingual documentation, making the library accessible to both English and Portuguese-speaking developers worldwide.

🌍 New Language Support

• Complete Portuguese Documentation - Full translation of all documentation pages
• Language Selector - Easy switching between English and Portuguese (similar to FastAPI docs)
• Organized URLs - Clean structure with / (English) and /pt/ (Portuguese)
• Automated Build System - Script for maintaining both language versions

📚 Documentation Enhancements

🇧🇷 Portuguese Content

• Início - Complete overview with performance benchmarks
• Começando - Comprehensive installation and setup tutorial
• Frontend - TypeScript integration with React, Vue, and Angular examples
• Performance - Detailed technical analysis and optimization guide
• Solução de Problemas - Complete troubleshooting guide

🇺🇸 English Improvements

• Updated benchmarks with latest v1.0.6 performance results
• Enhanced navigation and user experience
• Better code examples and use cases
• Improved technical documentation structure

🔧 Technical Improvements

• Enhanced MkDocs Theme - Better navigation features and responsive design
• SEO Optimization - Proper language metadata for search engines
• Build Automation - build_docs.sh script for easy multilingual builds
• Improved Structure - Better organization of documentation files

📊 Performance Highlights (from v1.0.6)

• 2.1x faster than JSON serialization
• 78.7% smaller payloads with LZ4 compression
• 4.0x faster round-trip on 100 Mbps networks
• 148x speedup for NumPy arrays

🎯 Global Accessibility

This release makes B-FAST documentation accessible to:

• International developers with comprehensive English docs
• Brazilian/Portuguese developers with native language support
• All users with improved navigation and examples

🔧 Installation

Python:

pip install bfast-py==1.0.7

TypeScript:

npm install bfast-client@1.0.7

📖 Documentation Links

• English: https://marcelomarkus.github.io/b-fast/
• Português: https://marcelomarkus.github.io/b-fast/pt/

🚀 What's Next

With multilingual documentation in place, B-FAST is now ready for global adoption. The library maintains its exceptional performance while being accessible to developers worldwide.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/marcelomarkus/b-fast/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

🚀 B-FAST v1.0.6 - Major Performance Breakthrough

🚀 Performance Breakthrough

B-FAST v1.0.6 delivers exceptional performance improvements and code organization, making it production-ready for high-performance applications.

⚡ Performance Highlights

• 2.1x faster than JSON serialization (4.51ms vs 9.64ms for 10k objects)
• 78.7% smaller payloads with built-in LZ4 compression (252KB vs 1.18MB)
• 4.0x faster round-trip performance on 100 Mbps networks
• 148x speedup for NumPy arrays vs JSON

🔧 Technical Optimizations

• SIMD batch processing with cache-aligned memory operations
• Branch prediction hints and unrolled loops for common patterns
• Hash-based string ID caching (64-entry cache)
• Zero-copy NumPy array serialization
• Direct memory access with unsafe operations for maximum speed

📊 Benchmark Results

Method	Time (ms)	Speedup	Payload Size	Reduction
JSON (stdlib)	9.64ms	1.0x	1.18MB	0%
orjson	1.51ms	6.4x	1.06MB	10.2%
Pickle	2.74ms	3.5x	808KB	31.6%
B-FAST	4.51ms	2.1x	998KB	15.5%
B-FAST + LZ4	5.21ms	1.9x	252KB	78.7%

🎯 Ideal Use Cases

• Mobile & IoT: 78.7% bandwidth savings + 2.1x performance
• Data Pipelines: 148x speedup for NumPy arrays
• APIs over slow networks: Up to 4x faster round-trip
• Storage & Caching: Superior compression with fast decompression

📁 Code Organization

• Moved benchmark files to dedicated /benchmarks folder
• Clean project structure with only main.py in root
• Comprehensive test suite and documentation

📚 Documentation

• Added comprehensive performance analysis (docs/performance.md)
• Created troubleshooting guide (docs/troubleshooting.md)
• Updated README with real-world benchmark results
• Complete API documentation at https://marcelomarkus.github.io/b-fast/

🔧 Installation

Python:

pip install bfast-py==1.0.6

TypeScript:

npm install bfast-client@1.0.6

🚀 What's Next

B-FAST v1.0.6 represents a mature, production-ready serialization library that excels in bandwidth-constrained environments while maintaining competitive performance across all network speeds.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/marcelomarkus/b-fast/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md