Re:AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in com...
by donavanm on Saturday August 20, 2022 @08:13AM
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The tweet doesnt mention dates or the coverage.
Second I believe youre underestimating the scope of the problem. Amazon has thousands of teams, even more services, each with their own priorities, and innumerable different access patterns, data types, etc. For all practical purposes there is no single “they.”
To get an idea of the scope how long would it take you to remove gz from oh … 50,000 projects? Each with many deployments and up to 15 years of active data.
Second I believe youre underestimating the scope of the problem. Amazon has thousands of teams, even more services, each with their own priorities, and innumerable different access patterns, data types, etc. For all practical purposes there is no single “they.”
To get an idea of the scope how long would it take you to remove gz from oh … 50,000 projects? Each with many deployments and up to 15 years of active data.