Binary Data
Noun · Development
Definitions
Data represented in raw byte form rather than as plain human-readable text, such as images, audio, serialized objects, compiled artifacts, or protocol payloads. Handling binary data correctly often requires attention to encoding, buffering, streaming, and size limits that text workflows can ignore.
In plain English: Data stored as raw bytes instead of readable text.
Example: "The upload endpoint had to switch to streaming because buffering binary data for every video chunk exhausted memory under load."