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Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

Abstract: WebSocket protocol is a part of HTML5 standard, which is suitable for real-time and full duplex web applications such as online chat, notification server, and online game systems. A ...

Data compression is a common practice that enables individuals or organizations to reduce the size of their data files while preserving essential information. It works by employing a cadre of ...

⚡ A compression library that implements many compression algorithms such as LZ4, Zstd, LZMA, Snappy, Brotli, GZip, and Deflate. It helps you to improve performance by reducing Memory Usage and Network ...

Even for built in algorithms (gzip and deflate), there are various parameters that users can supply which can unlock some use cases. Examples: compression level - determining the tradeoff between CPU ...

This past week, the sports world went nuts over the finding that the New England Patriots had indeed deflated footballs to make them easier for quarterback Tom Brady to grip. The hashtag #BanBrady ...

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