Everything about Gzip

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: GzipA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Implementasi HPack dan Gzip pada Optimasi Aplikasi Dengan Arsitektur MicroserviceInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Even Faster Web SitesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: pymzML v2.0: introducing a highly compressed and seekable gzip formatCited 88 times
5. Go sideways: DeflateA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Compress (software)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• pymzML v2.0: introducing a highly compressed and seekable gzip format

  M Kösters, J Leufken, S Schulze · 2018 · Bioinformatics · 88 citations

• GMT: Gzip-based Memory-efficient Time-series classification

  Sungmin Lee, Kichang Lee, JaeYeon Park · 2025 · ICT Express · 8 citations

• The Improvised GZIP, A Technique for Real Time Lossless Data Compression

  Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Sethi · 2019 · EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications · 8 citations

• Lossless compression of wave function information using matrix factorization: A “gzip” for quantum chemistry

  Peter R. Taylor · 2013 · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 6 citations

• Compression Algorithms: Brotli, Gzip and Zopfli Perspective

  Zubair Ali Syed, Tariq Rahim Soomro, 1Department of Computer Science, SZABIST, Dubai Campus, United Arab Emirates; · 2017 · Indian Journal of Science and Technology · 3 citations

• A gzip-based algorithm to identify bacterial families by 16S rRNA

  D. Santoni, V. Romano-Spica · 2006 · Letters in Applied Microbiology · 3 citations

• Data compression algorithms in modern web technologies: An analysis of Gzip, Brotli and Zstandard methods for optimising content delivery

  Dmytro Lutsak · 2026 · Information Technology and Computer Engineering · 0 citations

• Digital Data Security Using a Combination of Base64 Encoding, Rail Fence Cipher, and GZIP Compression

  Deden Pradeka, Zahra Khaerunnisa, Syifa Aqila Humaira · 2025 · Journal of Computer Engineering, Electronics and Information Technology · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Implementasi HPack dan Gzip pada Optimasi Aplikasi Dengan Arsitektur Microservice

  Rizal Tjut Adek, Syibbran Mulaesyi, Zara Yunizar · 2024 · Jurnal Teknologi Informasi dan Ilmu Komputer · 0 citations

• On-the-Fly Memory Decompression in GPU Featuring In-Partition Compressed Block Prefetching and Gzip Decompression for Scientific Computing

  Paul Xuanyuanliang Huang, Mingoo Seok · 2026 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Even Faster Web SitesSteve Souders · 2009
• Gzip: The Data Compression ProgramJean-Loup Gailly · 2000
• Even faster web sitesSteve Souders · 2009
• Linux bibleChristopher Negus · 2009
• Even faster web sitesSteve Souders · 2009

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🔗 Related topics

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