This format is JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). JSON implements the same hierarchical structure with key-value pairs that we find in Python dictionaries.

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In the implementation of the GETs in Listing 1 Marten is deserializing the JSON into Player objects, only for the object to be serialized back to JSON to be returned via Web API. This overhead can be ...