Gzip Compression Mitigation
Comments discuss how gzip and other compression techniques reduce issues like data bloat from encodings such as base64, particularly in web serving and storage scenarios.
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gzip compression kind of minimizes this issue.
Compression may help a lot though in such use case
Wouldn't gzip encoding (apache/nginx/whatever is used today) compress that anyway?
I assume this will have a bad time on compressed files?
After gzip compression, the effect is considerably reduced.
With block level compression you might manage it. But you'd have to be trying for it specifically.
Could you use better compression?
The article mentions that compression is already being used.
It's naive to think they don't compress.
Sounds like we just need better compression algorithm.