5 engineers on Hacker News describe using gzip first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We migrated a bunch of workflows at my last job from gzip to either lz4 or zstd to take advantage of better tradeoffs there”
regret · production · apendleton · 2021-05-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We replaced the data with a simple binary serialization format, gzip'ed that, and then base64 encoded the gzipped data.”
neutral · production · maccard · 2024-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“data compression with JSON+gzip was similarly-sized than the original one”
neutral · production · franciscop · 2023-01-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The last incremental patch we did to the game took 79 seconds in our build system to compress with the usual gzip.”
neutral · production · Negitivefrags · 2013-03-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?