Hi Aaron, Compression in gRPC is optional and not enabled by default. Did you see something that led you believe your traffic was compressed?
On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 3:36:52 PM UTC-7, Aaron Beitch wrote: > > Hello, > > We just had a minor panic internally at my company when we realized that > gzip compression is not enabled on any of our gRPC services. After making > the code changes to enable gzip we then had the realization that the http2 > client/server is probably already doing compression. > > A couple questions: > > 1) Do gRPC messages get compressed by the http2 layer by default? > > 2) Why would I enable gzip compression in gRPC if it is being done by > http2? Is the answer that I shouldn't be enabling gzip compression in gRPC, > but the flexibility is there in case I want to enable a different > compression scheme or I'm not using http2? > > I'm using the gRPC-Go, btw, if that makes any difference. > > Thanks, > Aaron > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/8fb457a9-9061-4409-9e43-9cd62968d67e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
