Impact of zstd
2019-09-20, 17:25–17:30 (Europe/Berlin), Loft

Zstandard (zstd) is a new lossless compression algorithm with a very attractive compression rate and performance. In production environments it comes with some quantifiable benefits but also with some surprising issues.

Oskari Saarenmaa is the CEO and one of the founders of Aiven, a cloud technology startup turning the best open source technologies into managed cloud services. Oskari was previously as a software architect designing secure, large-scale database systems and network security infrastructure and continues to be an open source enthusiast with numerous contributions into popular open source database and infrastructure projects.