REST API Optimization: How to Enable Compression Easily
Hi and welcome! In today’s video, I’m going to show you an important but often overlooked feature to enhance your REST API endpoints: compression.
Exposing large datasets via REST endpoints can lead to performance issues, as transmitting substantial amounts of data over the network should be minimized whenever possible.
This can be achieved by manually compressing the data before sending it, with the client decompressing it upon receipt. However, in this demo, I’ll show you how most frameworks significantly simplify this process.
We’ll explore how to automatically enable data compression in the Spring Boot framework with just a simple configuration and how a client, such as a Feign Client, can seamlessly consume this compressed data.
Compression can significantly reduce the amount of data transmitted, but the overhead of compressing and decompressing data may outweigh the benefits in some cases.
To address this, we’ll explore how to configure a parameter that strikes a balance by enabling compression only when the data size exceeds a specific threshold.
By Ahmed Fikri a Software Architect
https://tramotech.de