As a sorta-kinda testimonial, Concourse just released a version[0] that switches its volume streaming compression from gzip to zstd. It consumed so much less CP

As a sorta-kinda testimonial, Concourse just released a version[0] that switches its volume streaming compression from gzip to zstd. It consumed so much less CPU that they were also able to introduce parallel streaming. On a test workload which slings around many large volumes these changes made it approximately 20x faster[1]. [0] https://github.com/concourse/concourse/releases/tag/v5.4.0 https://github.com/concourse/concourse/releases/tag/v5.4.0 [1] https://github.com/concourse/concourse/issues/3992#issuecomment-504036411 https://github.com/concourse/concourse/issues/3992#issuecomm...