quickwit-oss / quickwit-oss/quickwit

Readd compression on the Rest API output

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enhancement
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Description

In https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit/issues/2958 we added compression for large output payloads.

We discovered however that compression was running on the tokio runtime, and harming Quickwit's performance considerably.
We should probably readd this compression but run it in the cpu intensive thread pool.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing issue 2958 and the current REST API output handling to understand the previous compression work and where it was removed. Done means compression is restored for large responses while running in the CPU-intensive thread pool instead of the Tokio runtime, with the performance impact checked.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
api, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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