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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Dealing with library version mismatch

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 Note : this article was initially redacted as an answer to David Jud's comment , but it became long enough to be worth converting int...
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Thursday, July 6, 2017

The art of designing advanced API

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 A library API (Application Programming Interface)  is even more important than its implementation. There are many reasons for this stat...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Zstandard v1.0 is out

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 and is now officially a Facebook Open Source project : https://code.facebook.com/posts/1658392934479273/smaller-and-faster-data-compres...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Specification of Zstandard compression format

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 With the compression format stabilized in v0.7.x serie, Zstandard  gets now a first version of its formal specification : https://github...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

Zstandard reaches Candidate Compression Format

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 Finally. That was a pretty long journey. With the release of v0.7, Zstandard  has reached an important milestone where the compression f...
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Friday, May 13, 2016

Finalizing a compression format

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With Zstandard v1.0 looming ahead, the last major item for zstd to settle is an extended set of features for its frame encapsulation layer. ...
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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Working with streaming

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 Streaming, an advanced and very nice processing mode that a few codecs offer to deal with small data segments. This is great in communica...
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Friday, February 5, 2016

Compressing small data

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 Data compression is primarily seen as a file compression algorithm. After all, the main objective is to save storage space, is it ? With...
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