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Examples & assignments for the course "Practical introduction to Observability".
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Describe the impact of compression #22

Open andrewhowdencom opened 10 months ago

andrewhowdencom commented 10 months ago

Section

Pillar 1: Logs

Lecture

When to Use

How can we make it better?

Currently, I discuss the storage requirements of logs. This is a little unfair, as generally people stream logs compressed (or at least periodically compress them). Instead, I should describe the different data structures and what people can do to make these tradeoffs (at least, in part).

This is especially interesting as low entropy logs (e.g. repeated logs) should compress exceptionally well.

H/T to @alexpovel