How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%
How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%
How we rolled out zstandard and other improvements across our gateway cluster to reduce the amount of bandwidth that’s used by our clients.
Tldr: It's just better compression
Shitty tech company catches up to modern standards. In other news, water is what makes things wet.
Yeah, but with our cutting edge AI model we can disrupt the wet market by leveraging hydrofoil effects on molecular clusters to provide pervasive distribution of fluids. All powered by AI blockchains in the cloud.
We take VC, 100million minimum per investor.
Lmao getting ahead of all the annoying pedants I see
Clearly didn’t read the article. Also discord has consistently posted fantastic tech blogs and led the industry in certain segments, no matter if you hate their locked ecosystem or not. This is a programming forum, at least read the article and discuss its merits.
Pied Pipper at it again.
Still interesting. zstandard using pretrained dictionaries (zstd --train). Previously they used zlib.
Does anybody know if you can pretrain dictionaries for 7zip for large ebook libraries? Or any better compression library for text?
And a pickup of gains from sending just the delta of changed data for one of their passive update beacons.
That's only half the article