Compression at "Internet" scale
One of the things I’ve learned, having been in more traditional “Enterprise” environments and “Internet” companies is that the latter have much larger scale issues, with respect to storage, by an order of magnitude or two, than the former. Fortunately, there’s also a difference in the nature of the data, such that the most voluminous (and, arguably, most valuable) data, web access logs, are highly compressible (5-10x) with the right algorithm. Compression is important atRead More…
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Compression at "Internet" scale