How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%
- Austin Whyte tl;dr: “zstandard has gained enough traction to become a viable replacement for zlib. Zstandard offers higher compression ratios and shorter compression times and supports dictionaries: a way to preemptively exchange information about compressed content, further increasing compression ratios and reducing the overall bandwidth usage.”featured in #552
What They Don't Teach You About Sockets
- Macoy Madson tl;dr: "If you have experience writing applications using sockets, all of this information should be obvious to you. It wasn't obvious to me as an absolute beginner, so I'm trying to make it more explicit in the hopes of shortening another beginner's time getting their feet wet with sockets."featured in #338