Console app that uses MessagePack and GZIP compression for benchmarking purposes

serialization-experiment.cs

using System;
using System.Text;
using MessagePack;
using System.IO.Compression;
using System.IO;

namespace compress
{
    class Program
    {
        private static string _messageSample = @"
            {
                ""specversion"" : ""0.2"",
                ""type"" : ""com.customerId.iot.deviceType.eventType"",
                ""source"" : ""device_id"",
                ""id"" : ""B234-1234-1234"",
                ""time"" : ""2018-04-05T17:31:00Z"",
                ""customer_extension_01"" : ""value"",
                ""customer_extension_02"" : {
                    ""otherValue"": 5
                },
                ""contenttype"" : ""application/json"",
                ""data"" : [
                    {
                        ""signal_name_01"": ""temp_sensor_01"",
                        ""values"": [24.01]
                    },
                    {
                        ""signal_name_02"": ""temp_sensor_02"",
                        ""values"": [25.02]
                    },
                    {
                        ""signal_name_03"": ""alarms_controller"",
                        ""values"": [true, false, false, true]
                    }
                ]    
            }";

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var messageInBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(_messageSample);
            Console.WriteLine($"Plain JSON object size: {messageInBytes.Length}");
            
            var messageAsMessagePack = MessagePackSerializer.FromJson(_messageSample);
            Console.WriteLine($"MessagePack object size: {messageAsMessagePack.Length}");

            using (FileStream fileStream = File.Create("compressed.bin"))
            using (GZipStream compressionStream = new GZipStream(fileStream, CompressionMode.Compress))
            {
                var memStream = new MemoryStream(messageAsMessagePack);
                memStream.CopyTo(compressionStream);

                Console.WriteLine($"Compressed MessagePack object size: {fileStream.Length}");  
            }

            using (FileStream fileStream = File.Open("compressed.bin", FileMode.Open))
            using (FileStream decompressedfile = File.Create("decompressed.txt"))
            using (GZipStream decompressStream = new GZipStream(fileStream, CompressionMode.Decompress))
            {
                decompressStream.CopyTo(decompressedfile);
            }     

            using (FileStream fileStream = File.Open("decompressed.txt", FileMode.Open))
            {
                var deserialized = MessagePackSerializer.Deserialize<object>(fileStream);
                Console.WriteLine(MessagePackSerializer.ToJson(deserialized));
            }                                             
        }
    }
}