Envoy, Ambassador and Istio: A Gzip Adventure (opens in new tab)

If I had to guess, it probably comes down to Go's gzip libraries being not as mature as the optimized to death C-based ones in nginx/apache.

It would have been interesting to benchmark Akamai's compression as well, to see if they're using standard gzip or some special sauce.

Interesting compromise from the github issue: "In other to reduce latency we decided to compress and flush on each data frame. The downside is that it degrades the compression ratio. The second option is to let gzip to compress until the buffer gets full. I think we could make it configurable."