https://josedavidbaena.com Personal website and blog where I document thoughts, ideas, and interests in software engineering, web performance, and open source technologies. en-us josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/kafka-protocol-internals/06-compression-decisions https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/kafka-protocol-internals/06-compression-decisions A measurement-driven guide to Kafka compression across CPU, network, storage, and latency, using real payloads instead of codec folklore. Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) kafkacompressionzstdlz4performance