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Brotli vs. Gzip Compression. How we improved our latency by 37% (medium.com)
15 points by Dutchie2020 2494 days ago
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Unfortunatly the linked nginx module [1] seems to be unmaintained since 2016. While there is a more maintained fork [2] it seems like neither the Ubuntu [3] nor the Debian team [4] want to package it due to open bugs and security concerns.

It's really surprising considering how widespread Brotli support is, that there isn't a better nginx support for it.

[1] https://github.com/google/ngx_brotli [2] https://github.com/eustas/ngx_brotli [3] https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx/+question... [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919320

Can I use this in my own project? I mean, is there an open source library for that?
There's the Google Javascript library: https://github.com/google/brotli

Also, there's also a Dropbox Rust library: https://github.com/dropbox/rust-brotli