We do something very similar in binlog: https://github.com/morganstanley/binlog https://github.com/morganstanley/binlog Serialization is platform-dependent (to

We do something very similar in binlog: https://github.com/morganstanley/binlog https://github.com/morganstanley/binlog Serialization is platform-dependent (to make it a simple memcpy most of the time), and the schema is sent up front (but can be updated later, with in-bound messages at will). See the User Guide (http://binlog.org/UserGuide.html http://binlog.org/UserGuide.html) and the Internals (http://binlog.org/Internals.html http://binlog.org/Internals.html) for more.