I shipped gni-compression to npm two days ago. One of the first questions I got (from myself, running benchmarks at midnight): does it work on anything other than chat data? Short answer: not yet. Long answer: I found out exactly why, and it led me somewhere more interesting than I expected. After the npm launch I ran GN against Silesia — the standard general text compression benchmark suite. Dick
My previous Python config validator was great for local development, but it hit a wall in minimal "distroless" containers and hardened environments where Python isn't much of an option. How a Simple Python Validator Prevents Config Outages MournfulCord Apr 28 #python #tutorial #devops #sre