It's extremely surprising me to that something like this - be it with gzip, lz4, or whatever - wasn't implemented at Cloudflare ages ago... And that the task to investigate fell to an intern. These are non-negligible numbers...
I suspect it just hasn’t been a priority problem in the past. This could very well have been a premature optimization when compared to getting services up and running reliably.
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It's extremely surprising me to that something like this - be it with gzip, lz4, or whatever - wasn't implemented at Cloudflare ages ago... And that the task to investigate fell to an intern. These are non-negligible numbers...
I suspect it just hasn’t been a priority problem in the past. This could very well have been a premature optimization when compared to getting services up and running reliably.
They've had cdn forever. How could cutting storage and bandwidth needs by 2/3 not have been a priority...?
Both were incredibly cheap until a few years ago, but I have no insights into their business.