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Improve Hazelcast serialization
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Description
HazelcastSessionRepository currently relies on standard Java serialization, which isn't the ideal option performance wise. We should look into leveraging Hazelcast's serialization mechanism like DataSerializable which should yield a nice performance improvement.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the HazelcastSessionRepository implementation and reading how it currently performs Java serialization. Then investigate the available Hazelcast serialization mechanism, including DataSerializable, and identify the tests or benchmarks that cover session serialization. Done means an agreed approach is implemented and its performance or behavior is verified.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- backend, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100