I agree, I just started using Zstd for uniprot.org (dev branch) and it looks like it is a lot faster in decoding than deflate or zlib and even smaller on disk.

I agree, I just started using Zstd for uniprot.org (dev branch) and it looks like it is a lot faster in decoding than deflate or zlib and even smaller on disk. It is one of those things where the improvement really matters for us and gives us faster results for our users. i.e. download speed is up to 20% faster with Zstd as compression algo for backing store compared to Deflate. Assuming bandwidth is available ;)