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Dev tools · September 5, 2016

Zstandard

Smaller and faster data compression open-source by Facebook

Zstandard launched on September 5, 2016 with 5 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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People are creating, sharing, and storing data at a faster rate than at any other time in history. When it comes to innovating on storing and transmitting that data, at Facebook we're making advancements not only in hardware — such as larger hard drives and faster networking equipment — but in software as well. Software helps with data processing through compression, which encodes information, like text, pictures, and other forms of digital data, using fewer bits than the original. These smaller files take up less space on hard drives and are transmitted faster to other systems. There's a trade-off to compressing and decompressing information, though: time. The more time spent…from engineering.fb.com

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