The new Appwrite version introduces Brotli compression support for faster HTTP communication and optimized network usage.

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The new Brotli compression in Appwrite is optional, and you can control how you want to use it using your standard HTTP encoding headers. If your end client doesn’t support it, Appwrite will skip it automatically. The new compression support will continue to work alongside the classic gzip compression Appwrite already supported.

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What is Brotli?

Brotli is also a compression algorithm like GZIP. It is developed and maintained by Google and is best used for text compression. The reason being, it uses a dictionary of common keywords and phrases on both client and server-side and thus gives a better compression ratio. In version 0.7 of Appwrite, you can enable the Brotli compression for any JSON or text-based response. Actually, the new Brotli support has significantly improved the Appwrite dashboard loading times.

Client Support

As of 2021, Brotli is supported by all major web browsers, but if you’re using the Appwrite server API and your HTTP client supports Brotli, you can use it to improve performance and reduce your network bandwidth.

What’s Next?

You can learn more about the different Appwrite features or check out some of our latest Feature Spotlights:

• Cloud Functions
• Appwrite CLI
• Appwrite Doctor

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