In today's world of complex web applications and micro-frontends, understanding HTTP compression is about more than just sending smaller files, it's crucial for creating better user experiences. This technical overview looks at how modern compression algorithms are influencing the way we build and deploy web applications.

We will start from the basic understanding of compression algorithms, lossy and lossless, and their foundational strategies, then have a look at the modern compression landscape with Gzip, Brotli and Zstd, to see how they work internally, their similarities and differences, and how we should leverage them for our web applications.

Technical Requirements:

Understanding of HTTP and asset delivery
Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks
Basic knowledge of web performance metrics

Target Audience:

JavaScript developers
Performance engineers
DevOps engineers
Framework architects

Session Duration: 35 minutes + Q&A
Format:

Technical deep dive with visual explanations
Real-world performance measurements
Framework-specific examples
Interactive compression analysis demonstrations

Recommended Conferences:

JSConf
Performance.NOW()
Next.js Conf
React Summit
ViteConf
Angular Nation

Key Takeaways:
Attendees will understand:

How different compression algorithms affect JavaScript delivery
Best practices for compression in modern web applications
Framework-specific compression strategies
Performance monitoring and optimization techniques

Supporting Materials:

Compression analysis toolkit
Configuration templates for various hosting platforms
Benchmark suite for compression testing