On: What developers should know about TCP

[jstanley]

You will never drop a single byte.

If you need some packet-oriented messaging, you could use something like http://jsonlines.org/ (i.e. JSON messages separated by newline characters), or https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf if it's more performance-critical.

[timeinput → jstanley]

Protobuf isn't self delimiting so you still have to have some extra packet wrapper around it to say the length.

I like zeromq to get to a packet based system.