At my previous job I noted that analytics events were passed to dwh as plain JSON. I said immediately that it should be compressed and proposed zStd as a codec.

At my previous job I noted that analytics events were passed to dwh as plain JSON. I said immediately that it should be compressed and proposed zStd as a codec. The actual implementation took less than a week including testing and gradual rollout, and cut incoming traffic to our data-center by 70%, while not at all affecting CPU on client or server.