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In-Memory Key-Value Store Serialization

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operations = [["PUT","b","two"],["PUT","a","one"],["SERIALIZE"],["GET","a"]]return = ["OK","OK","00000001a00000003one00000001b00000003two","VALUE:one"]

Serialization orders key a before key b. Each length occupies exactly eight hexadecimal digits.

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