I'm working on a very large production system which needs to store many, many small segments of similar, text-like data (think alphanumeric with many similar substrings). If we gzip each segment ...

Ziv and Lempel co-invented the famous Lempel-Ziv algorithm that is the basis of ZIP files. Prof. Abraham Lempel died 7 weeks ago. On Sunday, March 26, 2023, Jacob Ziv, a prominent Israeli computer ...

Wide-area network optimization has become an important technique to improve the performance and throughput of all sorts of networked applications, including some applications that depend on ...

Gary Illyes from Google has confirmed that Googlebot does indeed support Brotli compression. Brotli is a data format specification for data streams compressed with a specific combination of the ...