{"id":13165,"date":"2015-12-21T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13165"},"modified":"2015-12-21T16:04:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:04:21","slug":"how-gzip-trumps-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/21\/how-gzip-trumps-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gzip Trumps Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/wincent\/relay\/blob\/hack\/contrib\/lightweight-results\/README.md\">Greg Hurrell<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wincent\/status\/678041459417702400\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/wincent\/relay\/blob\/hack\/contrib\/lightweight-results\/README.md\">\n<p>In short, if you try to eliminate redundancy by applying some kind of clever transformation or restructuring your data object before piping it to gzip, you will probably just do a crappy job of reimplementing gzip at the wrong layer of abstraction, and get worse results overall.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Hurrell (tweet): In short, if you try to eliminate redundancy by applying some kind of clever transformation or restructuring your data object before piping it to gzip, you will probably just do a crappy job of reimplementing gzip at the wrong layer of abstraction, and get worse results overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[357,71],"class_list":["post-13165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-compression","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13166,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165\/revisions\/13166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}