Linus Torvalds quote: "You need to grow thick skin". I also got a knee-jerk reaction when reading the first part, but the article explained it well, given that

Linus Torvalds quote: "You need to grow thick skin". I also got a knee-jerk reaction when reading the first part, but the article explained it well, given that they probably don't want to give out too much information. So how would you have engineered it? I would just send the data uncompressed granted that the receiving server is probably in the same data-center with switches capable of handling Tbit's of data per second. I liked the article, but would have wanted more details. I love optimizations, it's such a drug, the rush when you make something x times faster. This article doesn't give me a bad impression. Contrary I'm thinking about sending an application.