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 ### Encoder/Decoder
 
-By default, datadog-api-client-go uses the Go standard library [`enconding/json`](https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json) to encode and decode data. As an alternative users can opt in to use [`goccy/go-json`](https://github.com/goccy/go-json) by specifying the go build tag `goccy_gojson`.
+By default, datadog-api-client-go uses the Go standard library [`encoding/json`](https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json) to encode and decode data. As an alternative users can opt in to use [`goccy/go-json`](https://github.com/goccy/go-json) by specifying the go build tag `goccy_gojson`.
 
 In comparison, there was a significant decrease in cpu time with `goccy/go-json` with an increase in memory overhead. For further benchmark information, see [`goccy/go-json` benchmark](https://github.com/goccy/go-json#benchmarks) section.