Zstandard

6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Zstandard first-hand: 4 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.

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6first-hand users
6in production
endorse 4mixed 0regret 0uses, no opinion

“zstd still does a pretty good job on them for the last bit.”

endorse · production · renewiltord · 2022-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched from LZ4 to Zstd in almost all of our compression use cases to great effect.”

endorse · production · paladin314159 · 2021-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We migrated a bunch of workflows at my last job from gzip to either lz4 or zstd to take advantage of better tradeoffs there”

endorse · production · apendleton · 2021-05-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The larger services require tuning to get the best performance out of zstd, and we use some advanced options.”

endorse · production · terrelln · 2018-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the import process would run in production on a server with low average load, 256GB RAM, and ZFS with zstd compression.”

neutral · production · mastax · 2022-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Eventually we switched to zstd, of course, but pigz never failed us.”

neutral · production · ericbarrett · 2022-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?