Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

[Tom Scavo <>]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Rhys Smith 
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 wrote:
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> Turned on serving .gz versions of the UKf aggregates 3 or 4 days ago now

So you enabled compression on ALL of your aggregates simultaneously?
That's a bold move. Obviously you didn't see the need to start with a
single aggregate (such as the preview aggregate) but may I ask why?

> and not a single reported problem yet.

Thanks, that's encouraging. You may have answered this elsewhere but I
just wanted to confirm: Are you compressing on the fly or
pre-computing compressed aggregates? I suspect you're doing the
latter...would care to speculate on how on-the-fly compression would
affect your stats?

> A few data points, just in case you’re interested!…

Yes, very interesting, thanks for sharing.

One final question: Do you support compression on per-entity metadata?
If so, I'm sure it's pre-computed, but my question is: Why compress
per-entity metadata at all? Seems like that could actually work
against you.

I've made some assumptions in what I wrote above, but if I'm wrong,
I'm sure you'll correct me :-)

Thanks,

Tom