Tag: Compression

Constant Contact v2 API Supports gzip Compressed Payloads

The Constant Contact v2 API now supports sending and receiving compressed JSON payloads in gzip format on all endpoints. Using compressed payloads improves Web and mobile app performance by reducing the amount of bandwidth required for API calls. Mobile app developers are extremely bandwidth sensitive, and look for performance improvements in every nook and cranny. […]

Space: the Final Frontier – a story of MySQL Compression

Space: the final fontier. Space, as in disk space, that is, was the driving factor behind a recent data compression project I worked on, along with a whole host of individuals and teams at Constant Contact. Due to ongoing data growth, my team was tasked with finding the best option for compressing data within the Contacts […]