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How can Google’s Zopfli compression algorithm be implemented in Django’s cache system?

11th October 2013

My answer to How can Google’s Zopfli compression algorithm be implemented in Django’s cache system? on Quora

It’s pretty easy to write custom backends for Django’s caching layer—check out https://github.com/sebleier/djan... for example.

Posted 11th October 2013 at 6:57 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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