[SergeAx]

Fun fact: when we started compressing our analytical events (furry JSON arrays with lots of context) we've dropped about 60% of our total inbound traffic. I was afraid that compression will eat client's battery, but we eventually got a reverse effect: saving energy on radio part, being WiFi or 4G/5G.

[nijave]

For background transfers reducing processing time can also maximize sleep/low power mode, too (Doze is one of them on Android but I think there's some other low power states)

There's some interesting (imo) research about optimizing cpu governors on Android that details some of the tradeoffs (like running high power on a single core might be better in some cases than longer at low power if the core can be hotplugged/disabled sooner)

[vanderZwan]

> furry JSON arrays with lots of context

Speaking of context, sincere question: what does "furry" indicate in this one? Because I'm guessing it's not about people who like to dress up as animals, but I'm also not sure what the metaphor of "hairy" data represents. Noise? Roughness?

[SergeAx]

NB: English is my second language. "Furry" is a superlative form of "hairy" for me.

Above I meant that our analytical events are not short bits of data like "main screen open at 11:25:15 UTC”, but a bunch of stuff, most of it repeating in every element of array: phone OS, vendor, version, connection type, session time, previous screen, etc all grouped into nested objects. No wonder it compressing next to nothing.

[vanderZwan]

> NB: English is my second language.

That makes two of us, which is probably why I didn't get you at first :). Thanks for explaining!