[ANNOUNCE] ngx_brotli

Aleksandar Lazic al-nginx at none.at
Sat Oct 10 08:53:20 UTC 2015


Hey Piotr.

WOW.
I wanted to post a question about brotli also today ;-)

Am 10-10-2015 02:24, schrieb Piotr Sikora:
> Hey guys,
> I'm pleased to announce ngx_brotli, a set of nginx modules adding
> support for the new Brotli compression algorithm from Google.
> 
> You can read more about Brotli here:
> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/09/introducing-brotli-new-compression.html
> 
> ngx_brotli is available on GitHub:
> https://github.com/google/ngx_brotli
> 
> Brotli content encoding is already supported by Firefox 44 (Nightly) 
> and
> it's expected to be supported by Chrome soon.

Looks like from firefox also.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559

In the firefox thread are some concerns about cpu usage vs bandwith 
savings.
Do you have done some tests from this point of view?

Cheers
Aleks



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